a French historian, was born at Rheims in 1692, and died at Paris, Oct. 8, 1785. He wrote, Traite de l'Autorite du Pape (1720, 4 volumes): Histoire de la Philosophie Paienne (1724, 1754, 2 volumes): — Vie de Grotius (Amsterdam, 1750, 1754, 2 volumes): — Vie d'Erasme (1757, 2 volumes): — Vie du Cardinal Duperron (1768). See Querard, La France Litteraire, s.v.; Dacier, Eloge de Burigny (Paris, 1788); Walkenaer, Recueil de Notices Historiques (ibid. 1850), page 286; Biog. General. 7:840; Gams, in Wetzer u. Welte's Kirchenlexikon, s.v. (B.P.)