BASNAGE, Henri, Sieur de Beauval, was the second son of Henri Basnage, and brother of the preceding. He studied the law, and was admitted an advocate in the parliament of Rouen in 1679. He practised with great reputation, till the revocation of the edict of Nantes obliged him to fly to Holland, where he composed the greater part of his works. He died in 1710, aged fifty-four. His chief work is his Histoire des Oeuvres des Savans, Rotterdam, 24 vols. 12mo.