André Lefèvre (4 May 1718 – 25 February 1768[1]) was an 18th-century French jurist and man of letters. A lawyer from 1739, Lefèvre wrote poetry and essays. He went to Paris and became tutor to the children of large families, especially the descendants of the house of Rochefoucauld.

André Lefèvre
Born	4 May 1718  Troyes
Died	25 February 1768  (aged 49) Paris

He contributed the articles « gouverneur », « faiblesse », « folie » and « gouvernante », to the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert

Works

• 1744: Mémoires de l’Académie des sciences de Troyes en Champagne. Liège
• 1748: Pot-Pourri.
• 1767: Dialogue entre un curé et son filleul.

Sources

• Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe, vol. 10, Paris, Administration du grand Dictionnaire universel, (p. 1477).^{[failed verification]}
• John Lough, The Encyclopédie. Slatkine, Geneva (1971)(p. 51)

References

External links

• André Lefèvre on data.bnf.fr
• André Lefèvre on Wikisource

На других языках

[fr] André Lefèvre (1717-1768)