Ansart, Louis Joseph Auguste

Ansart, Louis Joseph Auguste a French ecclesiastical writer, was born at Aubigny, in the diocese of Arras, in 1748, and died about 1790. He was priorrector at Grand-Pre, Ardennes, and published, Bibliotheque Litteraire du Mnaine, ou Traite Historique et Critique des Auteurs de cette Province (Chalons-sur-Marne, 1784); this work of 8 vols. remains unfinished: Vie de Gregoire Cortes, Benedictin, Evequte d' Urbin et Cardinal (Paris, 1786). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.