, born about the commencement of the last century, in the country of
, born
about the commencement of the last century, in the country of Messiii in France, was first a Jesuit, then curate of
Ormeville in the diocese of Rouen, and lastly canon of
Noyou. He died during the revolution. He commenced
his literary career in 1754, with a small poem on the Canary-bird, “Le Serin des Canaries,
” which was followed
by the translation of Quivedo, and a collection of Idyls.
He published afterwards in 2 vols. 12mo, a poem on the
Promised Land, which had little success, and was justly
censured for containing an absurd mixture of sacred and
profane history. He then attempted a work more suitable
to his profession, had he executed it well, an “Ecclesiastical History,
” 24 vols. 12mo, 1778 and following years.
This had some success, and a second edition was very recently (1811) published at Toulouse, but it is so far inferior to Fleuri, that it is somewhat surprising the French
public should have endured it. He left an abridgment of
it in manuscript, in 5 vols. 8vo. He was also employed
on the “Journal Etranger.
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