Aubery, Antoine

Aubery, Antoine a celebrated French parliamentary advocate, died in February, 1695. le published, a General History of the Cardinals (vol. i, 1642). In the following years he published four other volumes, and dedicated all to cardinal Mazarin, who, in return, granted .him a pension. - In 1649 he published a work on the pre-eminence of the kings of France over the emperor and the king of Spain:—a Life of Cardinal Joyeuse (1654) :-a Life of Cardinal Richelieu (1660): a Treatise on the Dignity of Cardinal (1673):-a Treatise on the Regale(cir. 1678): — and a Life of Cardinal Mazarin (1695). See Biog. Universell,. iii, 5; Dupin, 17th Cent.