Iieloug, Jacques, an eminent French bibliographer, was born at Paris April 19, 1665. In 1677 he was sent by his father to Malta, to be educated as a member of the order of Knights, but not liking the severity with which he was treated, he obtained permission to return to Paris. Here he continued his studies, and, as he had not yet taken the vows of the Order of St. John of IMalta, he en- tered the Congregation of the Oratory in 1686. He be- came successivelj' professor of mathematics in the Col- lege of JaUli, and afterwards m the seminary' of Notre Dame dcs Vertus, near Paris. Later he was appointed librarian of that institution, and in 1699 was transferred in the same capacity to the library of the Oratoire St. Ho- nore, at Paris, one of the richest in that city, especially in Oriental books and IMSS. This position he occupied for twenty-two years, rendering the greatest services to the scientific world by his valuable bibliograjihical: re- searches, and by a threefold catalogue. He died Aug. 17, 1721. His most important work, which is yet highlj' prized by students, is his Bihliotheca Sacra (Par. 1709, 2 vols. 8vo ; 2d ed. 1723, 2 vols. fol. — this latter ed. is by far the best). Another augmented edition was published af- ter his death by Desmolets, a priest of the Oratory (Par- is, 1723, 2 vols. fol,). A valuable supplement was after- wards added to it, and the whole work carefully revised, by Chr. Fr, Biimer (Lips, 1709) ; another enlarged and extended edition was published by A, G. Masch (HaUe, 1778-1790, 5 vols. 4to). As a historian, Lelong distin- guished himself particularly bj' his Bibliotli'eque histo- rique de la France, contenant le catalogue des ouvrages imprimes ct ma77usc}-its, qui traitent de Vhistoire de ce rogaume (Par. 1719 ; 2(1 ed, by Fevret de Fontette, Par. 1768, 5 vols. fol.). This was to have been followed by notices on the author of these works. Lelong wrote Discours historiques sur les ivincipales editions des Bibles Polgglottes (Paris, 1713): — Supplement « Vhistoire des dictionnaires Hehreux de Wolf us (Par. 1707): — Xouvelle methode des langues Hehraique et Chaldaique (Par, 1708), etc. See Desmolets, Vie du P. Lelong, in the 2d and 3d edition of the Bihliotheca Sacra ; Ilerzog, Real-KncyUo- pddie, viii, 290; Hoefer, JS'ouv. Biog. Uenercdc, xxx, 540 sq, ; Kitto, Bibl. Cyclop, s. v.
Lemaistre de Saci for Sacy), Isaac Louis, a noted French Janseiiist theologian, a nephew of Antoine Arnaiild Ic (Jrand, was born in Paris IMarch 29, 1613 ; was ordained a ])riest in 1650, and became confessor or prin- cipal director of the recluses of Port Koyal. Entangled in a controversy ^vith the Jesuits, he was persecuted by the authorities, both civil and ecclesiastical, in 1661, and, after having vainly sought refuge among friends, was confined in tlie Bastilc in 1666. During his imprison- ment, whicli lasted twu years, he made a French trans-
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lation of the Old Testament. He had previously been one of the translators of the Neiv Testament of Mons (1667). which was often reprinted. In consequence of renewed persecution, he left Port lloyal in 1679, seeking peace and quiet at the country seat of a friend of his. There he died, Jan. 4, 1684. He published French ver- sions of several classical works, anil of valuable theolog- ical treatises ; alsoof Thomas a Kempis's/wiVa/ion. See Hoefer, Nouv. Bioff. Ginerale, xxx, 568 ; Ste. Beuve, Poi-t Royal, ii, 1, 2 ; Kitto, Bibl. Cyclop, s. v. Sacy, de.
Le Mercier, Jacques, a French architect, born at Pontdisc about 1600, is noted as the builder of the Church of the Sorbonnc at Paris, reared by order of car- dinal Richelieu about 1635. Le Blercier obtained the title of chief architect to the king. Among other ad- mired works of his arc the Church of the Annonciade at Tours, and that of Saint Koch in Paris. He died in 1660. — Thomas, Biog. Diet. p. 1401 ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxx, 583.
Lemoine, Francois, a celebrated French painter of the isth century, was born at Paris in 1688, He Avas the pupil of Louis GaUochc, early distinguished himself, and in 1718 was elected a member of the lioyal Academy of Painting. His great reputation at tliis time is due mainly to his painting, in oil, of the Transfiguration of Christ on the ceiling of the choir of the Church des Jac- obins, Rue du Bacq. In 1724 Lemoine visited Italy, and in the j'ear foUovi-ing, on his return to France, was made professor of painting in the Academy. Louis XV ap- pointed him in 1736 his principal painter, with a salary of 4100 francs, in the place of Louis de Boullogne, de- ceased. The first of Lemoine's great works was the cupola of the chapel of the Virgin in St. Sidpice, in fres- co, which he commenced in'1729 — a work of three years' labor. His masterpiece, however, is the Apotheosis of Hercules, painted in oil on canvas pasted on the ceiling of the Salon dllercule at Versailles, commenced in 1732, and finished in 1736. He committed suicide June 4, 1737. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Ginerale, xxx, 617 , Eng- lish Cyelopmdia, s. v.
L'Enipereur, Constantine, a celebrated Dutch Orientalist, was born at Oppyck, in the Netherlands, about 1570. Pie was professor of Hebrew at Harder- wyk until 1627, when he was called to the University of Leyden as professor of Hebrew, and some time after was made professor of theology in that liigh school. He died in 1648. L'Enipereur edited the Commentary of Aben-Ezra and Mos. Alschech on Isa. lii, lo-Uii, 12, with notes (Leyd. 1633); and the Paraphrase of Joseph ben- Jachja on Daniel, with translation and notes (Amsterd. 1633 ), also the iMishnic tracts Buba Kama and Middoth (Leyil. 1737, 4to). He wrote himself Z'e Uignitafe et Util- itafe Lingua: Ihhruiccc (1627, 8vo) : — Clavis Talmudica, comj)lectens formulas, loca dialeciica et logica pj'iscorum Judceorum, (Leyden, 1634, 4to):- — De legg. Hehr. forens. (Leyd. 1637, 4to); and Disputationes theologicm (Leyd. 1648, 8vo). See Kitto, Cyclop. Bibl. Lit. s. v. ; Hoefer, Notiv. Biog. Gen. xxx, 642 ; Filrst, Bibl. Jud. i, 245 sq.