DANET, PETER, abbot of St Nicholas de Verdun, was one of the persons chosen by the duke of Montau-
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fer to write on the classics for the use of the dauphin. He had a share in Phædrus, which he published with notes and explications in Latin. He also wrote a dictionary in Latin and French, and another in French and Latin. He died at Paris in 1709.