in botany. See Salvia.

(Alain Rene), an ingenious French romance-writer, was born at Ruy in Brittany in the year 1667. He had a fine flow of imagination, was a complete master of the French and Spanish languages, and wrote several admired romances in imitation of the Spanish authors. These were, The Bachelor of Salamanca, 2 vols 12mo; New Adventures of Don Quixote, 2 vols 12mo; The Devil on Sticks, 2 vols 12mo; and Gil Blas, 4 vols 12mo. He produced also some comedies, and other pieces of pleasantry; and died in 1747, in a little house near Paris, where he supported himself by writing.