Francois Louis Francais, a French painter, born at Plombieres, Nov. 17, 1814. He went to Paris in 1829. became a bookseller's clerk, employed his leisure in studying painting, and produced bis first landscape in 1841. He has since acquired celebrity in that branch of art, and his masterpiece, " Orpheus," was exhibited in 1863. He has also painted subjects from the environs of Paris and Rome (1866), and Mont Blane (1869).