TANNEGUI Le, a distinguished French scholar, was born at Caen in Normandy in 1615. The numerous difficulties which opposed his early education he overcame by his own diligence and ability, and was at length enabled to enter the Jesuit College of La Flèche, where he greatly distinguished himself. Refusing to take orders in the Roman Church, he left Normandy for Paris, where he was appointed by Richelieu inspector of the press of the Louvre. After the Cardinal's death he retired to Langres and finally to Preuilly, where he openly professed the doctrines of the Reformed faith. He was immediately offered a chair in the Academy of Saumur, which he shortly afterwards exchanged for a more eligible appointment in Heidelberg. In this latter city he died Sept. 12, 1672. Le Fevre is perhaps fully better known as the father of Mme. Dacier than from the merits of his editions of some of the classics.

The following list contains the most important of these works:

- Editions of several works of Lucian; Longinus's Treatise on the Sublime; Fables of Phaedrus; Lactantius; the Histories of Elian; Euripides, Justin, Terence, and Horace; the Library of Apollodorus; Virgil; the Panegyric of Trajan by Pliny the younger; Dionysius of Alexandria, Ammianus, and Sappho; French translations of the Festivals of Xenophon, the First Alcibiades of Plato, the Treatise on Superstition by Plutarch, and the Life of Aristoippos by Diogenes Laertius; the translation into Latin verse of the Fables of Lokman; Distribute Fl. Josephi de Jeu Christo testimonia supposita esse Epistolae Romanae partes II, Saumur, 1659, 1665, in two vols. 4to; Les Vies des Poètes Grecs, 1665, in 12mo, to which is subjoined Le Mariage de Bélégory, translated from the Italian of Machiavelli, and the Life of Theseus, translated from the Greek of Plutarch; Méthode pour commencer les Humaines tréquées et Lettres, in the Mémoires de Littérature de Sallengre; Notes on the Scaligeriana Prima. (See Mémoires pour servir à la Vie de Tannegui Lefevre, by Fr. Graverol, 1886; and the Mémoires de Nicron.)