AUBIN-LOUIS, an eminent antiquary, was born at Paris in 1759. He was originally intended for the church, but he afterwards left this sphere, and devoted himself to literary pursuits. In 1785 he published a collection of translations from foreign languages; and becoming acquainted with Willemet the botanist, and having his attention thus directed to natural science, he published in 1790 a work on the Rise and Progress of Natural History in France. On the outbreak of the French revolution, Millin was favourably disposed to the first movements of the friends of liberty; but the excesses and atrocities of the Reign of Terror seriously disconcerted him; and he did not hesitate to express the utmost horror and indignation at these actions. He was in consequence imprisoned, and did not regain his liberty till the fall of Robespierre, in 1794. In the same year he succeeded Barthélemy as keeper of the cabinet of medals, and about the same time he edited, at first along with other distinguished men, and afterwards alone, the *Magasin Encyclopédique*. He also lectured on the history of antiquities; but finding that his labours were injuring his health, he travelled to the south of France, examining the antiquities to be found there. On a second journey thither, which he carried afterwards into Italy, the effects of his exertions were such as to cause his death in 1818. He was a voluminous writer, and his principal works are as follows:—*Dictionnaire des Beaux Arts*, 1806; *Histoire Métallique de la Révolution Française*, 1806; *Voyage dans le Midi de la France*, 1807-11; *Voyage en Savoie, en Piémont, à Nice, et dans l'Etat de Gênes*, 1816; *Voyage dans le Milanais, à Plaisance, Parme, Modène, Mantoue, et Crémone*, 1817; and *Histoire Métallique de Napoléon*, 1819-20.