He joined the Benedictines at Vendôme and was professed there in 1658. After teaching humanities for a short time to the junior monks at Pontlevoy, he was, at the instance of Dom Luc d"Achery, sent to the Abbey of Street-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. Together they journeyed on foot through Flanders, visiting all its chief monastic libraries.
In 1670 he was made sub-prior of Street-Martin"s, Pontoise.
In 1684 he was appointed procurator for his congregation in the Curia Romana, which post required his residence in Rome for the remainder of his life. During the fifteen years he lived in Italy he saw to many matters of ecclesiastical business.
He died at daughter at Rome in 1699, and was buried in the church of the Minims of Steamship Trinità de" Monti.
