ORLEANS, Peter Joseph, a French Jesuit, and author of Histoire des Révolutions d'Angleterre, was born at Bourges in 1641. He taught belles lettres for some time in his society, but afterwards devoted himself to the writing of history. This pursuit he continued till his death, which happened in 1698. He wrote also a history of the Revolutions of Spain; A History of Two conquering Tartars, Chunchi and Camhi; The Life of Father Coton, &c. His History of the Revolutions in England, under the family of the Stuarts, from the year 1632 to 1692, was translated into English, and published at London, 1711, in one vol. 8vo.; to which is prefixed an Introduction, by Laurence Echard, M.A. who says, that "the great varieties and wonderful changes in these reigns are here judiciously compendied in a moderate volume with no less perspicuity than strictness; and with a beautiful mixture of short characters, nice reflections, and noble sentences, which render the whole agreeable and instructive. But while the reader is entertained with so much skill and fineness, we ought to caution him with relation to the education and religion of the author; for though he has great marks of a generous candour, and a laudable deference to all superiors; yet he is to be considered, in all places, as one in favour with the French king, and not only a true papist, but a complete Jesuit."