Augustin, one of the most learned and laborious writers of the eighteenth century, was born at Messil le Horgne, a village in the diocese of Toul, in France, in the year 1672, and took the habit of the Benedictines in 1688. Among the many works he published are, 1. A literal Exposition, in French, of all the Books of the Old Testament, in nine volumes folio; 2. An historical, critical, chronological, geographical, and literal Dictionary of the Bible, in four volumes folio, enriched with a great number of figures of Jewish antiquities; 3. A civil and ecclesiastical History of Lorraine, three volume folio; 4. A History of the Old and New Testament, and of the Jews, in two volumes folio, and seven volumes duodecimo; 5. An universal sacred and profane History, in several volumes quarto. He died in 1757.