Isaac de, an ingenious French poet, born in 1622 at Lions-la-Forêt in Normandy. He made himself known at court by his verses and his wit, and had the good fortune to please the cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin. He wrote, 1. A Paraphrase upon Job; 2. Verses for Interludes; 3. Rondeaux upon Ovid; 4. Several Tragedies. A sonnet of his, which he sent to a young lady with his paraphrase on Job, having been placed in competition with the Urania of Voiture, a dispute on their relative merits long divided the whole court and the wits into two parties, who were respectively styled the Jobelins and the Uranists. Some years before his death, Benseraide applied himself to works of piety, and translated almost all the Psalms. According to the Abbé Olivet, he latterly withdrew from court to his residence at Gentilly, where he died on the 19th October 1691, in the eighty-second year of his age.