FABERT, ABRAHAM DE marshal of France, was the son of Abraham Fabert, seigneur de Moulins (d. 1638), a famous printer who rendered great services, civil and military, to Henry IV. At the age of fourteen he entered the Gardes f rancaises, and from 1618 was almost constantly in service. He was a brilliant engineer, and at the siege of Stenay he intro duced new methods of siegecraft which anticipated in a measure the great improvements of Vauban. In 1658 Fabert was made a marshal of France, being the first commoner to attain that rank. He died at Sedan on May 17, 1660.