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VERTOT D'AUBOEUF, Rene Aubert de, a celebrated historian, who descended from a noble and ancient family in Normandy, and born in 1655. At 16 years of age he became a Franciscan friar; afterwards he entered into the order of the Premonstratenses, in which he had several benefices: and at length was a secular ec- clesiastic. He became secretary to the duchess of Or- leans, member of the Academy of Inscriptions, and his- toriographer of Malta. He died at Paris in 1735. His principal works are, 1. The History of the Revolutions of Sweden. 2. The Revolutions of Portugal. 3. The Revolutions of the Romans. 4. The History of Malta. These works are written in elegant French, and trans- lated into most of the languages of Europe.