Anquetil

Anquetil, Louis Pierre, a French historian, who was born in 1723, and became a priest. He was director of the Academy at Rheims, and of the college at Senlis, prior of the Abbey of St. Loe, and vicar of La Villette, near Paris. Imprisoned in the Reign of Terror, he regained his liberty, and found employment in the French Foreign Office. He wrote many historical works, and died in 1808.