Background
Bouillart was born in the Diocese of Chartres.
Bouillart was born in the Diocese of Chartres.
He professed at the Monastery of Saint Faron de Meaux in 1687. He was the author of Histoire de l"abbaye royale de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris, 1724). This history of the Benedictine monastery contains biographies of the abbots that ruled over it, since its foundation by Childeric I in 543, along with historical events related to the abbey.
lieutenant also contains many illustrations and detailed descriptions of architecture, art and historical documents.
Bouillart also edited a martyrology of Usuard.