LOUIS FRANÇOIS JOSEPH DE LA, a French historian and antiquary of some name, was born at Tournay in 1688. Besides various learned papers contributed to the Memoirs of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, of which he was a member, he published in 1729, Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de France et de Bourgogne. He also contributed many articles to the edition of Moroni's Dictionary, published in 1725, and was concerned in various other works. His death took place, whilst he was preparing a Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, in May 1738.