Netherlandish humanist. Béthune (Artois, then in the Netherlands, nowadays in France), 1546 - Aix-la-Chapelle (?), probably 1614-1615. At first town-recorder ('griffier') in his native city, he appears in 1579-1582 in the immediate following of the Prince of Orange. A notary public in Middelburg from 1595 until 1598. In 1598 he settled down in Aix-la-Chapelle. BB, III, page 815-830, lists the works written by Le Petit or attributed to him. In the list figure a number of pamphlets trying to promote the cause of the Prince of Orange and the Duke of Anjou and published by the Plantin Press. In fact, their attribution to Le Petit is subject to caution. Of some of them we know with certainty that they were written by Jean de la Jessée (see there). We preferred, consequently, to catalogue the other writings attributed by BB to Le Petit under the anonymous pamphlets: Advertissement à ceulx du Pays Bas, 1579 (no. cp011909); Emanuel-Erneste, 1580 (no. cp010535); Première apologie pour Monseigneur et les Estats des Pays-Bas, 1582 (no. cp012076).