Lefevre

(André), French writer, b. Provins, 9 Nov. 1834. He became, at the age of twenty-three, one of the editors of the Magasin Pit to res que . He wrote much in La Libre Pensée and La Pensée Nouvelle ; has translated Lucretius in verse (’76), and written Religions and Mythologies Compared (’77); contributed a sketchy History of Philosophy to the Library of Contemporary Science (’78); has written Man Acro the Ages (’80) and the Renai ance of Materialism (’81). He has also edited the Lettres Per sanes of Montesquieu, some Dialogues of Voltaire, and Diderot’s La Religieuse (’86).