JOHN BAPTIST, fellow of the Sorbonne, and king's Greek professor, was born at Nismes in Languedoc in 1627. He made a collection of the fathers who lived in the apostolic age, which he published at Paris in two volumes folio in 1672; all reviewed and corrected from several MSS. with a Latin translation and notes. He also published Monumenta Ecclesiae Graecae, in 3 vols; being a collection of Greek tracts out of the king's and M. Colbert's libraries, and which had never been published before; to these he added a Latin translation and notes. He intended a farther prosecution of this work; but his intense studies broke his constitution, and deprived him of life in 1686.