Beauvais, Gilles Francois

Beauvais, Gilles Francois a French Jesuit and ascetic writer, was born in 1695 in Brittany. He published the Almancnch du Clerge from 1664 to 1668. He died at Paris in 1773. Among other works, he wrote, l'Education d'un Grand Roi (Paris, 1718, 1759): — Viet du P. Azevedo, Jesuite (ibid. 1744): Lettres Morales et Chretienmes d'une Dame a sa Fille, sur les Moyens de se Conduire avec Sagese dans le Monde (ibid. 1758). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.