Born: May 12, 1630, Paris, France.
Died: August 5, 1697, Dijon, France.
Buried: Originally at the Church of Saint-Etiénne (Église Saint-Etiénne) in Dijon, later re-interred at the Abbey of St. Victor (Abbaye Saint-Victor), Paris, France.
Pseudonym: Santolius Victorinus.
Jean Baptiste was son of Claude de Santeüil and Madelaine Boucher, and brother of Claude de Santeüil.
He studied at the College of Sainte Barbe in Paris, then with Father Cossart, a Jesuit.
He became one of the regular Canons of St. Victor, at Paris, and gained a reputation as a distinguished writer of Latin poetry.
Many of his hymns appeared in the Cluniac Breviary of 1686, and the Paris Breviary, 1680 and 1736.
His Hymni Sacri et Novi was published at Paris in 1689, and enlarged in 1698.
Known as the prince of French hymnographers,
he was continually writing poems, inscriptions for the public monuments of Paris, or sonnets for friends.
He was admired by the learned men of his day, the two Princes de Condé, father and son, and by King Louis XIV, who gave him a pension.