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See also:

• ABEL (Hebrew for breath)
• ABEL (better ABELL), THOMAS (d. 1540)
• ABEL, KARL FRIEDRICH (1725-1787)
• ABEL, NIELS HENRIK (1802-1829)
• ABEL, SIR FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, BART

ABEL BEFFROY DE REIGNY (1757–1811)  , French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Laon on the 6th of November 1757 . Under the name of " Cousin Jacques " he founded a periodical called Les Lunes (1785–1787) . The Courrier des planetes ou Correspondance du Cousin Jacques avec le firmament (1788–1792) followed . Nicodeme clans la Lune, ou la revolution pacifique (1790) a three-act farce, is said to have had more than four hundred representations . In spite of his protests against the evils of the Revolution he escaped interference through the influence of his brother, Louis Etienne Beffroy, who was a member of the Convention . Of La Petite Nanette (1795) and several other operas he wrote both the words and the music . His Dictionnaire neologique (3 vols., 1795–1800) of the chief actors and events in the Revolution was interdicted by the police and remained incomplete . Beffroy spent his last years in retirement, dying in Paris on the 17th of December 181 r .