FURETIERE, ANTOINE (1619-1688), French scholar and miscellaneous writer, was born in Paris and became abbe of Chalivoy in the diocese of Bourges. His satires—Nouvelle Alle gorique, ou histoire des derniers troubles arrives au royaume d'eloquence (1658) ; Voyage de Mercure (1653)—won him ad mission to the French Academy in 1662. When the academicians I heard that Furetiere was on the point of issuing a dictionary of the French language, they interfered, alleging that he had used their information, and that they possessed the exclusive privi lege of publishing such a book. After much bitter recrimination on both sides the offender was expelled in 1685 ; but he took his revenge in his satire, Couches de l'academie (Amsterdam, 1687). Furetiere is best known as the author of Le Roman bourgeois (1666; ed. Fournier and Arselineau, 1854), which ridiculed the fashionable romances of Mlle. de Scudery and of La Calprenede. The author contents himself with stringing together a number of episodes and portraits, obviously drawn from life, without much attempt at sequence. His Dictionnaire universel was posthumously published in 1690 at Rotterdam.