LACHAISE, Francois d'Abt de, fait swii di de la-shaz, French Tesuit confessor of Louis, XIV: b. Chateau d'Aix, 25 Aug. 1624; d. Paris, 20 Jan. 1709. He was the provincial of his order when Louis, on the death of his .former confessor, appointed Lachaise to that office. The new confessor with admirable tact kept himself clear of the innumerable meshes of court intrigue. Jansenism was at the time a powerful factor in ecclesiastical and political circles, and the Jesuits were its most formidable adversaries, but Lachaise knew how to conduct himself under all circumstances with address, coolness and sagacity; and never allowed him self to be drawn into violent measures against his opponents. That Louis XIV married Mme. de Maintenon was owing principally to the 'counsels of his Jesuit confessor. Lachaise re tained the favor of his monarch till his death, and Louis had a country-house built for him to the west of Paris, on an eminence which had !received the name of Mount-Louis. Its ex
tensive garden now forms the cemetery of Fire Lachaise, the largest in Paris.
LACHAMBEAUDLE,leshan'beide,Pierre.
French fable writer: b. Sarlat, Dordogne, 15 Dec. 1807; d. Brunoy, 6 July 1872. 'He was son of a poor peasant and became bookkeeper for a Lyons commercial house, then obtaining a position on the railway while edit ing Echos de la Loire until, after much poverty and misfortune, his