FELIBIEN, ANDRE (1619-1695), sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, French architect and historiographer, was born at Chartres. He was one of the first members (1663) of the Acad emy of Inscriptions, historiographer to the king, was secretary to the newly founded Academy of Architecture, and keeper of the cabinet of antiques in the palace of Brion. To these offices was afterwards added by Louvois that of deputy controller-general of roads and bridges. Of his works the best and the most generally known is the Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellents peintres anciens et modernes. It was republished with several (5 parts; 1666-88; enlarged ed. Amsterdam, 1706, and Trevoux, 1725). Felibien wrote also Origine de la peinture (166o), Principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, etc. (1676-9o), and descriptions of Versailles, of La Trappe, and of the pictures and statues of the royal residences. He died in Paris on June II, His son, Jean Francois Felibien (c. , was also an architect who left a number of works on his subject; and a younger son, Michel Felibien (c. 1666-1719), was a Benedictine of Saint Germain-des-Pres whose fame rests on his Histoire de l'abbaye royale de S. Denys en France, and his L'Histoire de la ville de Paris in 5 vols., a work indispensable to the student of Paris.