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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 372 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TANNEGUY

LEFEBVRE (TANAQUILLUS FABER) (1615-1672)  , French classical scholar, was born at
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Caen . After completing his studies in Paris, he was appointed by Cardinal Richelieu inspector of the printing-press at the Louvre . After Richelieu's
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death he
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left Paris, joined the Reformed Church, and in 1651 obtained a professorship at the academy of
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Saumur, which he filled with
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great success for nearly twenty years . His increasing
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ill-
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health and a certain moral laxity (as shown in his
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judgment on Sappho) led to a
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quarrel with the consistory. as a result of which he resigned his professorship . Several
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universities were eager to obtain his services, and he had accepted a
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post offered him by the elector palatine at
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Heidelberg, when he died suddenly on the 12th of September, 1672 . One of his children was the famous Madame
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Dacier . Lefebvre, who was by no means a typical student in dress or manners, was a highly cultivated man and a thorough classical scholar . He brought out
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editions of various Greek and Latin authors—Longinus,
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Anacreon and Sappho, Virgil, Horace, Lucretius and many others . Hismost important
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original
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works are:
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Les Vies
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des pates Grecs (r665); Methode pour commencer les humanites Grecques et Latines (2nd ed., 1731), of which several
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English adaptations have appeared; Epistolae Criticae (1659) . In addition to the Memoires pour . . . la
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vie de Tanneguy Lefebvre, by F . Graverol (1686), see the article in the Nouvelle biographie generale, based partly on the MS. registers of the Saumur Academie .

LEFEBVRE-DESNOETTES,

CHARLES, COMTE (1773-1822), French cavalry general, joined the army in 2792 and served with the armies of the North, of the Sambre-and-Meuse and Rhineand-Moselle in the various
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campaigns of the Revolution . Six years later he had become captain and aide-de-camp to General
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Bonaparte . At M1crengo he won further promotion, and at Austerlitz became colonel, serving also in the Prussian campaigns of 1806-1807 . In 1808 he was made general of brigade and created a count of the
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Empire . Sent with the army into Spain, he conducted the first and unsuccessful siege of Saragossa . The battlefield of
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Tudela showed his talents to better
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advantage, but towards the end of 1808 he was taken prisoner in the
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action of Benavente by the
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British cavalry under Paget (later Lord
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Uxbridge, and subsequently
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Marquis of Anglesey) . For over two years he remained a prisoner in England, living on parole at
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Cheltenham . In 1811 he escaped, and in the invasion of Russia in 1812 was again at the head of his cavalry . In 1813 and 1814 his men distinguished themselves in most of the great battles, especially La Rothiere and Montmirail . He joined
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Napoleon in the
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Hundred Days and was wounded at
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Waterloo . For his
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part in these events he was condemned to death, but he escaped to the
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United States, and spent the next few years farming in
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Louisiana . His frequent appeals to Louis XVIII. eventually obtained his permission to return, but the " Albion," the vessel on which he was returning to France, went down off the coast of Ireland with all on board on the 22nd of May 1822 .

LE FEVRE,

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JEAN (c . 1395-1468), Burgundian chronicler and seigneur of Saint Remy, is also known as Toison d'or from his long connexion with the order of the
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Golden Fleece . Of noble birth, he adopted the profession of arms and with other Burgundians fought in the English ranks at Agincourt . In 1430, on the foundation of the order of the Golden Fleece by Philip III. the Good, duke of
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Burgundy, Le Fevre was appointed its king of arms and he soon became a very influential person at the Burgundian court . He frequently assisted Philip in conducting negotiations with
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foreign powers, and he was an arbiter in tournaments and on all questions of chivalry, where his wide knowledge of
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heraldry was highly useful . He died at Bruges on the 16th of
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June 1468 . Le Fevre wrote a Chronique, or Histoire de Charles VI., roy de France . The greater part of this chronicle is merely a copy of the
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work of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, but Le Fevre is an original authority for the years between 1428 and 1436 and makes some valuable additions to our knowledge, especially about the chivalry of the Burgundian court . He is more concise than Monstrelet, but is equally partial to the dukes of Burgundy . The Chronique has been edited by F . Morand for the Societe de 1'histoire de France (Paris, 1876) . Le Fevre is usually regarded as the author of the Livre des faites'de Jacques de Lalaing .

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