a 17thcentury French lutenist, who lived a t Amsterdam, where he became also a publisher. He wrote an instruction book for the lute, The Secret of the Muses, which appeared in 1615 in a Dutch, a Latin and a French edition,1 and contained a composition by Claude Lejeune; ' Le second livre de la tablature de luth ' (1618 and 1619) ; ' Piete rovale,' the 150 Psalms of David arranged for the lute (1620); 21 Psalms arranged for the voice and lute (1619); ' Apollinis siisso Leyer ' . . . for violin and bass (Amsterdam, Janssen, 1642) (Q.-L. ; Mendel).