(Stephen), a French writer, born in 1651, and sometime librarian to M. Colbert. In 1693 he obtained a pension, with the post of director of the royal college, for writing the lives of the popes of Avignon; both which advantages he soon lost in the fluctuation of court-parties. M. Baluze is much more noted for collecting ancient MSS. and illustrating them by notes, than famed for his own compositions.