Antoine Firetiere, a French author, born in Paris about 1620, died May 14, 1688. He was successively an advocate, a fiscal agent, an abbe, and a prior, and was admitted into the French academy in 1662. While the academy was preparing its dictionary, Furetiere, regarding the work as defective, determined to edit and publish a lexicon on his own account. Hence the academy excluded him, and a war of epigrams, satires, and libels, unsurpassed for violence, began between him and the leading academicians. Furetiere was protected by the most important personages, by Racine, Boileau, Moliere, Bossuet, and even Louis XIV., and his wit and vivacity distinguished him in society; but his death occurred before the suit which he prosecuted against the academy was decided. His dictionary, enlarged by Basnage, passed through several editions. He wrote also a few fables and poems.