Background
He was grandson of Paul du Soul of Tours, who was professor of theology and rector of Saumur Academy between 1657 and 1661.
He was grandson of Paul du Soul of Tours, who was professor of theology and rector of Saumur Academy between 1657 and 1661.
He graduated Master of Arts from one of the University of Groningen and University of Franeker, where he had studied, and had at Franeker been a pupil of Jacob Rhenfurd, around 1700.
His Greek scholarship recommended him to the notice of men of influence at both Oxford and Cambridge. at the University of Cambridge in 1701, per literas regias. He already had an Master of Arts Encouraged by Richard Bentley, he projected an edition of Lucian, of which in 1708 he printed a specimen at Cambridge, and he collected materials for a life of the writer Nothing, however, came of this edition
In the same year he was employed in the family of the Earl of Wharton.
In 1722 and 1723 he was at The Hague, possibly on a mission to the Wetsteins. A passage in the preface of Johan Frederik Reitz"s edition of Lucian shows that he was living after 1733.
He appears to have died before 1737.