DUBOS (John Baptist), a learned and ingenious
French author, born at Beauvais in 1670. He finished
his studies at Paris, and at length was intrusted with
the management of several important affairs in Italy,
England, and Holland. At his return to Paris, he
had a prebendary given him; afterwards he had a pen-
sion of two thousand livres, and the abbey of Notre
Dame at Reims, near Beauvais. He died at Paris,
when perpetual secretary of the French academy, on
the 23d of March 1742. His principal works are,
1. Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting, in three
volumes duodecimo. 2. A Critical History of the
French Monarchy in Gaul, two volumes 4to.