LEFRANC, Abel Jules Maurice, French historian: b. Elincourt-Sainte-Marguer-. ite, Oise, 27 July 1863. He was educated at Paris and at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin. He was secretary, and later professor, of the College of France, was exchange pro fessor at the University of Chicago in 1913• and was thrice a laureate of the French Acad emy. He was a collaborator on the 'Grande Encyclopedic) and attained general recognition as an authority on the literature of the 16th century. Author of de la vine de Moyon et de ses institutions jusqu' 3 la fin du XIIIe siècle' (1887); du College de France depuis ses origines jusqu,' I la 'fin du premier Empire) (1893) ; 'Lecons Moliere et sur le roman franca's au XVIIe siege) (1904-09)i Pascal: Pascal est-il un (1906) ; 'Etudes Maurice Guerin et sur ses oeuvres inedites) (1908) • 'Les ceuvres de Francois Rabelais) (1912-137; 'Grands ecrivains francais de la renaissance) (1914) ; 'CEuvres inedits de .An dre Chenier) (1914), etc.
LEFUEL, Hector Martin, French architect: b. Versailles, Nov. 1810; d. Paris, 1 Jan. 1881. , He studied under his father and Huyot, and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and in 1839 won the Prix de Rome. He designed
in 1848 a mantel for the Palais de Florence which won great admiration, and in 1854 he succeeded Visconti in the direction of the work at the Louvre and at the Tuileries. He built the temporary palace for the Exposition des Beaux-Arts in 1855, and the facades of the Grand Galerie and the Rue de RivoTi were his work. He remodeled the pavilions Marsan and Deflore, and built the national porcelain works at Sevres. He was a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and in 1855 he was elected to the Institute.
LEG (a word of Scandinavian origin, Icelandic leggy, Danish hrg, Swedish lag; the Anglo-Saxon word was scanca or sceanca, froth which is derived the English word ((shank))), one of the _two lover, limbs of mart, and any one of the limbs of an animal, used in sup porting and moving the body, in standing, walking, running, climbing or swimming. The sense of the word is occasionally restricted to the designation of that portion of the body between the knee and the ankle, but more gen erally it is used in describing the entire lower limb.