, was born at Guise in Picardy, of which place his father was governor,
, was born at Guise in
Picardy, of which place his father was governor, in 1535,
and died at Paris at the house of Genebrard his friend,
the 25th of December 1581. He presided over the abbey
of St. Michel en PLerm, which John his brother had ceded
to him in order to become a Carthusian monk. There are
of his several pieces both in verse and prose; and especially
translations of the Greek fathers into Latin. The most
esteemed of them are, those of St. Gregory of Nazianzen,
of St. Isidore of Pelusium, and of St. John Damascenus.
Few of the learned have been more masters of the Greek
tongue. He distinguished himself in other departments of
literature. He composed several pieces of French poetry,
1576, in 8vo, and published learned “Observationes sacrse,
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