He later became vice-senechel of Fontenay and Niort, and, in 1585, "lieutenant criminel" (both are officers of public justice) in the Île-de-France region.
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He retired from public life in 1605 and died in 1608 at Poitiers, on the way to see friends in Paris.
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Rapin was close to many writers of the period, including Joseph Justus Scaliger, Jacques-Auguste de Thou, Etienne Pasquier, Jacques Gillot and Agrippa d'Aubigné.
Nicolas Rapin (1535–1608), a French magistrate, royal officer, translator, poet and satirist
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