Jacques Moisant de Brieux

Born at Caen (Normandy) in an aristocratic Huguenot family on 13 May 1611, Moisant de Brieux had Antoine Halley as his first preceptor before continuing his studies in the best Protestant institutions of his time.

Moisant very missed Caen, and he found there that cultivating the humanities provided him with an outlet for the ills he suffered.

Moisant held close ties with Jean Chapelain, Samuel Bochart, et Pierre-Daniel Huet.

Jean Regnault de Segrais praised his Meditations, which are "not just for Calvinists but also for us, since there is nothing in them that touches upon points of contention."

Suffering from kidney stones, Moisant died at Caen, on 20 May 1674, only a few days after he had resigned himself to having them surgically removed.