Sieur de Beaucal, second son of Henry Basnage, and brother of James mentioned in the last article. He applied himself to the study of the law, and was admitted an advocate in the parliament of Rouen in the year 1679. He did not, however, devote himself to the bar immediately on his admission, but went to Valencia, where he studied under M. de Marville. Upon his return he practised with great reputation till the year 1687, when the revocation of the edict of Nantes obliged him to fly to Holland, where he composed the greater part of his works, and died on the 29th of March 1710. His chief work is Histoire des Ouvrages des Savans. terdam, 24 vols. 12mo. When he arrived in Holland, Mr Bayle, through indisposition, had been obliged to drop his Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, which induced M. Basnage to undertake a work of the same kind under a different title.