BEFFROY DE REIGNY, LOUIS ABEL French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Laon on Nov. 6, Under the name of "Cousin Jacques" he founded a periodi cal called Les Lanes (1785-1787) . The Courrier des planetes ou Correspondance du Cousin Jacques avec le firmament (1788 1792) followed. Nicodeme dans la lune, ou la revolution pacifique (179o) a three-act farce, is said to have had more than four hun dred representations. In spite of his protests against the Revolu tion he escaped interference through the influence of his brother, Louis Etienne Beffroy, who was a member of the Convention. Of La Petite Nanette and several other operas he wrote both the words and the music. His Dictionnaire neologique (3 vols., I 795-I800) of the chief actors and events in the Revolution was • interdicted by the police and remained incomplete. Beff roy died in Paris on Dec. 17, 1811.