FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836), better known as FRANcAIS OF NANTES, French politician and author, was born at Beaurepaire, Isere, on Jan. 17, 17 56. He became a member of the legislative assembly (1i91), a member of the council of Five Hundred (1798) and one of its secretaries, a member of the council of state, and director-general of the indirect taxes (droits reunis) (1804). On the second restoration he retired into private life; but from 1819 to 1822 he was repre sentative of the department of Isere, and after the July revolu tion he was made a peer of France. He died in Paris on March 7, 1836.
Francais wrote a number of works, Le Manuscrit de feu M. Jerome (1825), etc.