HARDOUIN, JEAN 29), French classical scholar, was born at Quimper in Brittany. About the age of 16 he was ad mitted into the order of the Jesuits. He eventually became li brarian of the College Louis le Grand in Paris, and died there on Sept. 3, 1729. He edited Pliny's Natural History for the Delphin series and in the course of this work became interested in numis matics. His work in this department was marred, like the rest of his work, by a passion for originality. It includes Nummi antiqui populorum et urbium illustrati (1684), and Antirrheticus de nummis antiquis (1689). He also supervised the Conciliorum col lectio regia maxima (1715), holding the view that all councils prior to the council of Trent were fictitious. Among his many paradoxi cal theories, the most remarkable is that contained in Prolegomena ad censuram veterum scriptorurn, to the effect that the vast majority of the existing classical works are spurious productions of the works of the 13th century.
See A. Debacker, Bibliotheque des ecrivains de la Compagnie de Jesus