, was born in the province of Maine in 1552. He was sieur or lord
, was born
in the province of Maine in 1552. He was sieur or lord of
the manor of Croix du Maine, and of Vieille Cour, four
leagues from Mans. From his youth he. had a passionate
inclination for learning and books, and collected so large
a library at the university in Greek and Latin authors, and
most European languages, that, as he says himself, the
catalogue of them would make a volume. He began to
make this collection in his seventeenth year; and in his
thirty-second, viz. in 1584, he published his “French
Library,
” being a general account of all authdfs that wrote
in that language, fol. Of this we shall take particular notice under the article Verdier. In 1519 he addressed a
discourse to viscount de Pauliny, and speaks of a great
many works which he had written, none of which, however,
are known, except a small 4to, *' Dessems ou projets,
&c. pour dresser une bibliotheque parfaite," Paris, 1583,
and a long Latin epitaph on the poet Monin, who was
assassinated at Paris in 1586, a fate which befell himself
at Tours in 1592.