(Dr Peter), a learned French Protestant divine, born at Alencon in 1641. He became minister of the reformed church at Rouen, where he published many learned and curious pieces; the credit of which induced the reformed to call him to Charenton, about a league from Paris, being the principal church... they had in France. On the revocation of the edict of Nantz, he retired to England; where he studied the language with so much success, as to publish a work, intitled Reflections on the Books in the Holy Scriptures, to establish the Truth of the Christian Religion, 2 vols; which he dedicated to James II, acknowledging his obligations to that prince, and his kind behaviour to the distressed refugees in general. He wrote several other treatises relating to ecclesiastical history; which rendered him as famous in England as in France, for his ingenious and solid defences of the reformed religion. He was complimented with the degree of D.D. and in 1690 was made treasurer of the church of Salisbury. He died in 1717.