JOHN, was born at Befiers in Lower Languedoc in 1674. He was made professor of law and history at Lausanne in 1710; which he enjoyed for seven years, and during that time was three times rector : in 1717, he was professor of public and private law at Groningen. He translated into French the two celebrated works of Puffendorff, his Law of Nature and Nations, and his Duties of a Man and a Citizen; to both which he wrote excellent notes, and to the former an introductory preface. He translated also Grotius's treatise De Jure Belli ac Pacis, with large and excellent notes; and several of Tillotson's sermons. He wrote a work entitled Traité de Jeu, 2 vols. 8vo.