FRANCOIS DE

See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• FRANCOIS DE BAR (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

BAR (1538-1606)  , French scholar, was born at Seizencourt, near St Quentin, and having studied at the university of Paris entered the order of St Benedict . He soon became prior of the abbey. of Anchin, near Pecquencourt, and passed much of his time in the valuable library of the abbey, studying ecclesiastical history, especially that of Flanders . He also made a catalogue of the manuscripts at Anchin and annotated many of them . During the French Revolution his manuscripts passed to the library at Douai . Bar died at Anchin on the 25th of March 1606 . See J . Lelong, Bibliotheque historique de la France (Paris, 1768-'778) ; C . C . A . Dehaisnes, " Catalogue des manuscrits de Douai, in the Catalogue general des manuscrits des bibliotheques des departements, t. vi . (Paris, 1849-1885) .