Background
Beausobre was born at Niort, Deux-Sèvres.
Beausobre was born at Niort, Deux-Sèvres.
After the revocation of the edict of Nantes he fled to Rotterdam (November 1685), and in 1686 was appointed chaplain in Oranienbaum to the princess of Anhalt-Dessau, Henrietta Catherine of Orange-Nassau. In 1693, on the death of John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, he went to Berlin and became a court preacher, and in 1695 pastor for the French church at Friedrichswerder Church. He became court preacher, counsellor of the French Reformed Consistory, director of the Maison française, a hospice for French people, inspector of the French gymnasium and superintendent of all the French churches in Brandenburg.
He had strong sense with profound erudition, was one of the best writers of his time and an excellent preacher.
Beausobre was married twice.
Prussian Academy of Sciences.