Master in theology in 1678, he founded a theological school at Cambrai (1675); he was prior at Tournai (1672) and at St-Omer (1686-89). A keen theologian and polemicist, he wrote: *Vanitas triumphorum* (Douai 1670), on the problem of physical promotion; *Cultus Mariae vindicatus adversus monitorem anonymum* (St-Omer 1674); *Disertatio theologica de absolutione sacramentali percipienda et impertienda* (ibid. 1682), against the Jansenist rigorism of Gilbert de Choiseul, bishop of Tournai.
BIBL.: Quétif-Echard, II, pp. 781-82; F. Desmons, *Gilbert de Choiseul évêque de Tournai*, Tournai 1907, passim; *Scriptores O. P.*, 2nd ed. ed. R. Coulon, Paris 1911, pp. 150-62; R. Coulon, s. V. in *DTHC*, VI, 11, cols. 2150-52. Alfonso D'Amato