Beausobre was born at
Niort,
Deux-Sèvres. After studying theology at the Protestant
Academy of Saumur, he was ordained at the age of twenty-two, becoming pastor at
Châtillon-sur-Indre. After the revocation of the
edict of Nantes he fled to
Rotterdam (November 1685), and in 1686 was appointed chaplain in
Oranienbaum to the princess of
Anhalt-Dessau,
Henrietta Catherine of Orange-Nassau. In 1693, on the death of
John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, he went to Berlin and became a court preacher, and in 1695 pastor for the French church at
Friedrichswerder Church. He became court preacher, counsellor of the French Reformed
Consistory, director of the Maison française, a hospice for French people, inspector of the French
gymnasium and
superintendent of all the French churches in
Brandenburg. He had strong sense with profound erudition, as he was one of the best writers of his time and an excellent preacher. ==Family==