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a French historian, who was born at Aix in 1598, and died there in 1671, is chiefly known as the author of Chorographie ou ‘ Description de la Provence, et Histoire Chronologique du meme Pays (Aix; 1664; 2 vols. fol.); and Vindicice Fidei et Pietfais Provincie, etc. (ibid. eod. 8vo): being a defence of the Provencal tradition concerning the descent of St. Madelaine in that country, against Launoi, who replied to his defence, and drew from him a new edition of the work in French, augmented and corrected. See Biog. Universelle, 5, 266; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.