Jean Louis Pierre Elizabeth de Montcalm de, a child of astonishing precocity, born at the château de Candiac in the diocese of Nismes in France, in 1719. At four years of age he read Latin, either printed or in manuscript; and at six understood Greek and Hebrew, knew the principles of arithmetic, history, geography, heraldry, and numismatics, and had read the best authors on various branches of literature. Candiac attracted the attention of the learned at Nismes, Montpellier, Grenoble, Lyons, and Paris; and it was for his benefit that the typographic board was contrived by M. Dumas, who superintended his instruction. He died of a complication of disorders, at Paris, in 1726.