STEPHEN, a French writer, born in 1651, and some time 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.