Pierre Francois Jacobs

Pierre Francois Jacobs, a Belgian painter, born in Brussels about 1780, died in Rome in 1808. He repeatedly won prizes while a student at the academy of Brussels, and became famous by his picture of " The Head of Pom-pey presented to Caesar," executed in Rome.

Pierre Francois Le Courayer

Pierre Francois Le Courayer, a Roman Catholic ecclesiastic, born at Rouen, Normandy, in 1681, died in England in 1776. He had taken refuge in England (1728) in consequence of a " Defence of English Ordinations," which he had published (1723) as a result of the convictions to which he was brought by a correspondence with Archbishop Wake. The correspondence took place while Courayer was canon of St. Genevieve, and professor of theology and philosophy. The university of Oxford conferred on him the title of doctor of laws, and Queen Caroline settled a pension of £200 on him for a French translation of Fra Paolo's "History of the Council of Trent." He also translated Sleidan's "History of the Reformation," and wrote several theological works. He entertained many religious opinions contrary to the doctrines and practices of the church of Rome, but declared himself two years before his death still a Catholic He was buried in Westminster abbey.

Pierre Francois Marie Auguste Dejean

Pierre Francois Marie Auguste Dejean, count, a French general and entomologist, born at Amiens, Aug. 10, 1780, died in 1845. He served in the wars in Spain, became general of division in 1813, and distinguished himself at Waterloo, where he acted as aide-de-camp of the emperor. He was one of the most celebrated collectors of coleoptera in modern times. He published a catalogue of his collection (3d ed., Paris, 1837-8), exhibiting the number of specifis in each genus, and indicating their localities. He is the author of Histoire generate des coleopUres (7 vols., 1825-'39), and wrote, in concert with Boisduval and Aube, Icono-graphie et histoire naturelle des coleopteres d'Europe (5 vols. 8vo, with 264 colored plates, 1829-'40).

Pierre Francois Olive Rayer

Pierre Francois Olive Rayer, a French physician, born at St. Sylvain, Normandy, March 8, 1793, died Sept. 10, 1867. He graduated in medicine at Paris in 1818, and soon acquired an extensive reputation both as a scientific man and as a practitioner. In 1832 he was appointed physician-in-chief to the hospital of La Charité, and in 1852 was attached to the medical service of the imperial household. He published Sommaire d'une histoire abrégée de l'anatomie pathologique (1818); Mémoire sur le delirium tremens (1819); Histoire de l'épi-démie de suette miliaire qui a réegné en 1821 dans l'Oise et le Seine-et-Oise (1822); De la morve et du farcin chez l'homme (1837); Traité théorique et pratique des maladies de la peau (2 vols., 1826-'7; new ed., 3 vols., 1835); and Traité des maladies des reins et des alterations de la sécrétion urinaire (3 vols., 1839-'41). The last two were his most important works.