He was grandson of Paul du Soul of Tours, who was professor of theology and rector of Saumur Academy between 1657 and 1661.
As a Protestant he was driven from France by persecution, and seems to have settled at Amsterdam, before moving to England.
His Greek scholarship recommended him to the notice of men of influence at both Oxford and Cambridge.
[2] A passage in the preface of Johan Frederik Reitz's edition of Lucian shows that he was living after 1733.
London, 1729); it had been started by Augustine Bryan, and Thomas Bentley had then proposed to continue it.