(Peter), an ingenious and learned French Jesuit, born in the diocese of Clermont, in the year 1581. He was one of the most perfect imitators of Virgil in Latin poetry, and his poems are of the same species: Thus he wrote Elegies; Georgics; or four books on the culture of the soul and the understanding; together with a heroic poem intitled Constantine, or Idolatry overthrown. He showed also great critical abilities in a Latin Peripatetical dissertation on epic poetry. He died in 1661.