GOGUET (Antony-Yves), a French writer, and author of a celebrated work, intitled, L'Origine des Lois, des Arts, des Sciences, & de leur Progrès chez les anciens Peuples, 1758, 3 vols. 4to. His father was an advocate, and he was born at Paris in 1766. He was very unpromising as to abilities, and reckoned even dull in his early years; but his understanding developing itself, he applied to letters, and at length produced the above work. The reputation he gained by it was great: but he enjoyed it a very short time, dying the same year of the small pox; which disorder, it seems, he always dreaded. It is remarkable, that Conrad Fugere, to whom he left his library and his MSS, was so deeply affected with the death of his friend, as to die himself three days after him. The above work has been translated into English, and published in 3 vols. 8vo.