(Louisa), a courtezan and poetess of Lyons. Her charms were so great, that her contemporaries have lavished every kind of applause on her. She entertained at her house lords, gentlemen, and other persons of merit, with conversation, music, and the reading of good authors, with which her closet was abundantly stocked, and with the most delicious sweet-meats. She was particularly fond of learned men; who were so much in her good graces, that she preferred them before any nobleman of the highest distinction. All the compositions she left are comprised in a book, which is extremely scarce, intitled, Quares de Louise Labbe, Lionnoise, printed at Lyons in 1556; in which is, The contest of Love and Folly.

(Philip), born at Bourges in France, in 1607; professed philosophy, divinity, and the languages, with great applause; and died in 1667, aged 70. He was a laborious writer, and a good critic; and wrote, 1. Nova Bibliotheca MS. librorum, in 2 vols folio. 2. De Byzantine historia Scriptoribus. 3. Galeni vita. 4. Bibliotheca bibliothecarum. 5. Concordantia chronologica, &c. He began the last edition of "The councils," and died while the 9th volume was printing; they were finished in 17 volumes, by father Collart.