1694 to 1701, and theology at Pont-à-Mousson from 1704 to 1708. About 1730 he became the spiritual director of Duchess Elizabeth-Charlotte of Lorraine. A few years later he returned to the Jesuit house at Saint-Nicolas where he spent the remainder of his life. His chief works are: "De Justitia, jure et legibus" (Pont-à-Mousson 1704); "Remarques sur la théologie du R. P. Gaspard Juenin" (1708), a refutation of the Jansenistic errors of Juenin; "Les Saints enlevez et restituez aux Jesuites" (Luxemburg, 1738), concerning Saints Francis Xavier and John Francis Regis; "Traité de la clôture des maisons religieuses de l'un et de l'autre sexe" (Nancy, 1742); "Recueil de Lettres critiques sur les Vies des Saints du Sieur Baillet" (Cologne, 1720); "Les prets par obligation stipulative d'interest usités en Lorraine et Barrois" (Nancy, 1745), a canonical treatise; "Sancti Patris Ignatii de Loyola exercitia spiritualia tertio probationis anno per mensem a Patribus Societatis Jesu obeunda" (Prague, 1755; Paris, 1889). References Ziegelbauer, Historia rei literariœ O. S. B. (Augsburg, 1754), III, 455-7, II, 154-5 Calmet, Bibl. Lorraine (Nancy, 1751), 724-35 Hugo von Hurter, Nomenclator literarius (Innsbruck, 1910), 1108–10 Sommervogel, Bibl. de la Compagnie de Jésus, IV (Brussels, 1895), 624-7 External links 1659 births 1728 deaths French Benedictines 17th-century French Catholic theologians 18th-century French historians Benedictine theologians French male non-fiction writers 17th-century French male writers 17th-century French historians