MOINE (Francis le), an excellent French painter, was born at Paris in 1688, and trained up under Galloche professor of the academy of painting; which office he himself afterwards filled. Le Moine painted the grand faloon which is at the entrance into the apartments of Versailles, and which represents the apotheosis of Hercules. He was four years about it; and the king, to show how well pleased he was with it, made him his first painter in 1736, and gave him a pension of 4000 livres. A fit of lunacy seized this painter the year after; during which he ran himself through with his sword, and died, June 4. 1737, aged 49.