General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . pplied himself to itwith great labour and diligence, until he hadcompleted that and the following volume. Hiistate of health, however, winch was naturallydelicate, was much affected by the close atten-tion which he had bestowed upon this woik,and before he had quite finished the eleventhvolume he was incapacitated by a paralytic at-tack for any farther literary exertions. He sur-vived this stroke for more than twelve
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . pplied himself to itwith great labour and diligence, until he hadcompleted that and the following volume. Hiistate of health, however, winch was naturallydelicate, was much affected by the close atten-tion which he had bestowed upon this woik,and before he had quite finished the eleventhvolume he was incapacitated by a paralytic at-tack for any farther literary exertions. He sur-vived this stroke for more than twelve months,but in a state of great languor and suffering,until his release in 1742, at the college of LaFleche, when in the fifty-sixth year of his ag^.His volumes are more commended for the in-timate and accurate knowledge which they dis-play of the subjects discussed by the author,than for their beauties of style, or precision andperspicuity as historical compositions. Theauthor is represented to have been a man notonly of very respectable erudition, but of greatbenevolence and mildness, of agreeable win-ning manners, and of exemplary virtue. Mo-rtri. Nouv. Diet. Hist.— F O N ( 133 ) FOX FONTENELLE, Berxakd lr Bovier de,a man of letters, called by Voltaire the mostuniversal genius of the age of Lewis XIV. wasborn at Rouen in 1657. His father was anadvocate, his mother was a sister of the greatCorneille. He received his education at theJesuits college in Rouen, and became distin-guished for the quickness of his parts at a veryearly age. He wrote Latin verses at thirteen,which were thought worthy of being his fathers desire he studied the law, andwas admitted an advocate ; but having lost hisfirst cause, he renounced the bar, and thence-forth devoted himself to literature and philoso-phy. He first visited Paris in 1674, and madehimself known by several ingenious copies ofverses inserted in the Mercure Galant. Hecomposed a great part of the operas of Psyche and Belle
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