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PIERRE DANIEL (ü-ā'), a French critic and classical scholar; born in Caen, Normandy, in 1630. He was HUGHENDEN educated at the Jesuits' college at Caen; was appointed in 1670 sub-preceptor under Bossuet to the dauphin, and superintended the celebrated Delphin series (ad usum Delphini) of the Latin classics.
Having taken holy orders, he was made Abbot of Aulnai, and subsequently nominated Bishop of Soissons, later exchanged for that of Avranches. He wrote: "Latin and Greek Songs"; "Origin of the Romans"; "Strictures of the Cartesian Philosophy"; "History of the Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients," a book still of great value. He died in Paris, France, in 1721.