 Bonfrère owes his fame to his work in the department of Sacred Scriptures, into which, he tells us, he had been initiated by Cornelius a Lapide.His "Praeloquia" was, in 1839, selected by Jacques Paul Migne as the most suitable treatise or general introduction with which to begin his "Sacrae Scripturae Cursus Completus" (I, cols.5-242).