(Stephen), a learned French Protestant, born at Caen in 1625. He became minister of two churches near Caen, and in 1664 was chosen minister of Caen; but on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, was obliged to take refuge in Holland. He was soon called to be professor of the oriental tongues at Amsterdam, to which employment was afterwards joined that of minister in ordinary: he died in 1700. He was the author of several works: and his fondness for the Hebrew language made him run into some extravagancies concerning it; for in his Lettre sur l'origine de la langue Hebraïque, he endeavours to prove that language as old as the creation, and that God himself inspired it into Adam. This was answered by Huet.