b. 26 November 1678, Béziers
d. 20 February 1771, Paris
His eloge may be found in Histoire de l'Academie royale des sciences, 1771, pp. 89–104. He contributed a short paper "Sur le Jeu de Pair ou Non," published in Hist. de l'Acad. R. Sci. Paris 1728, p. 53-57. This paper deals with a game of Even and Odd.