JEAN FRANc018 FELIBIEN, eldest son of Andrd, was born in 1753; he inherited his father's love for the arts, assisted him in several of his works, and succeeded him in some of his offices. He was a consenter du roi, secretary of the Acad6mie d'Architecture, and treasurer of the Acad6mie des Inscriptions. His best known work is the Receuil Iliatorique de la Vie et des Ouvrages des plus c61Ohres Architectes ' 4to, Paris, 1687, which was several times reprinted, but is a work Of little value. He also wrote several descriptions of public buildings. lle was removed from his office of treasurer of the Acad6mie des Inscriptions in 1716, on suspicion of being concerned in some dis honourable transactions, and in 1722 his name was struck off the list of the Academy. He published a 'RequOte an Roi, pour demander d'ętre remis sur la lists des et de conserver ' eon rang dens l'Acad6mie ' 12mo, 1722; and an arrdt du conseil of July 18, 1722 acquitted him of the charges brought against him, but he was not re-admitted into the Academy. He died at Paris, June 27, 1733.
Dom /dram, FELTBIEN, another son of Andr6, was born at Chartres, September 14, 1666. At the ago of sixteen he entered the congrega
tion of St. Maur. Feeble health preventing him from active exertions, he devoted himself chiefly to literature. His principal work is a Histoire de l'Abbaye Royale de St. Denis,' foL, Paris, 1706. This work contained besides an elaborate descriptiou of the church, an account of its privileges and lives of its abbds, of its benefactors, and of the celebrated men connected with it. So high a reputation did this work gain for its author as a learned, painstaking and faithful historian, that the merchants of Paris by their provost, M. Bignon, applied to Dom Felibien to write a history of Paris. He entered upon the task with ardour, and published his 'Projet ' in 1714, but died before he could complete his undertaking, September 25, 1719. It was finished by Dom Lobineau, and published in 5 vols. foL, Paris, 1755, under the title of 'L'Hietoire de in Ville de Paris,' with an 6loge of Dom Michel Felibien prefixed. •