Claim: The Monasticon Gallicanum which Dom Germain (neither a monk nor a priest at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés) commissioned and by the time of his death in 1694, had been engraved, the work still did not proceed to publication; but a small number of prints were made which circulated loose, and the copper plates were then dispersed without trace.
Evidence: Dom Michel Germain, a monk at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and a friend of Jean Mabillon, undertook the task.