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* LESTEB. 159 LE SUEUR. of England (1841), in which he criticised Eng- land's anti-slavery professions. In 1842 Presi- dent Tyler appointed him United States Consul at Genoa, and in the five years during which he occupied this position he translated a number of standard Italian authors into English and wrote The Life of Vespucius- (1846), and The Artist, the Merchant, and the Statesman of the Age of the Medici and of Our Oun Times (2 vols., 1S46). During the following years he published a num- ber of other works, including: My Consulship (2 vols., 1853); The Napoleon Dynasty (18U0); America's Advancement, or the Progress of the United States During Their First Century (1876); The Mexican Republic (1878); and a Life of Charles Sumner (1874). His books had considerable influence in their day. LESTOCQ, le'stuk', Jeak Hebmanx (1692- 1767). A French surgeon and adventurer, who spent much of his life at the Russian Court. He chose the profession of a surgeon, and, after ac- quiring his education, went to Russia, where he received an appointment in the service of Peter the Great. In 1718, however, he was banished to Kazan on account of his dissolute habits. Re- called by Catharine I. (1725), he was appointed Burgeon to Princess Elizabeth, and soon acquired such influence over her that he succeeded in per- suading her to engage in the Revolution of 1741, by which she became Empress of Russia. In 1748, however, his enemies led the Empress to suspect his loyalty, and he was arrested, tor- tured, and banished to Ustjuk Veliki, in the Prov- ince of Archangel. He was recalled by Peter III. in 1761, and Catharine II. gave him a large annual pension and an estate in Livonia. LESTRANGE, le-stranj', Sir Roger (1616- 1704). An English journalist and translator, born at Hunstanton, Norfolk, December 17. 1616. He was probably educated at Cambridge. Being a zealous Royalist, he accompanied Charles I. in his expedition against the Scotch in 1639. In 1644 he was appointed by the King Governor of Lynn, and he attempted to take it from the Par- liamentary forces, but, betrayed by two of his ac- complices, he was tried, doomed to death as a traitor, and sent to Newgate. After four years he escaped and tried to incite an insurrection in Kent, but. failing, he fled to the Continent. After the passage of the Act of Indemnity (1652) he returned to England (1653) and made personal application to Cromwell, and was allowed to re- main undisturbed. After the Restoration he was appointed by Charles II. censor or licenser of the press. In the Puhlic Intelligencer, a newspaper which he started in 1663, he slavishly supported the Crown. The Obserrntor, begun in 1681, two years after the Popish plot, as the organ of the Tory Party, aimed to defend the King from the charge of favoring Popery. In 1685 Lestrange was knighted by James II. for 'his unshaken loyalty to the Crown.' and elected to Parliament. In 1688 he was deprived of his oflice of censor and committed to prison for a short time. He died December 11, 1704. In the history of jour- nalism Lestrange occupied a considerable place. His political pamphlets, coarse and brutal in style, hit hard, .mong his translations, which have often been praised, are the following: .lo- sephus; Cicero's Offices: Seneca's Morals; Eras- mus's Colloquies: JEsop's Fables; Quevedo's Visions: Bona's Guide to Eternity; Five Love- Leiters from a yun to a Cavalier. LESUEUR, le-su'er', Charles Alexandre ( 1778-1857 ) . A French naturalist, bom at Havre. He made his first success with his drawings illustrating the zoological discoveries of the expedition undertaken by the corvette La Ge'ographie. With Peron, he published and illustrated valuable monograplis on Radiairea de la elasse des meduses and Mollusques ptero- podes. In 1815 he went to America with Mac- laure and lived for some time in Philadelphia, where he contributed to the memoirs of the Academy of Natural Sciences. He returned to Havre in 1844 and became keeper of the city's museum. LESUEUR, EuSTACHE (1617-55). A French historical painter. He was born in Paris, and studied in the atelier of Simon Vouet, where Lebrun was his fellow pupil. One of his early works, "Saint Paul Healing the Sick," was painted for the Academy of Saint Luke. He was among the first members of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, established in 1648, and the only rival of Lebrun. its founder. During his early years Lesueur was occupie4 with miscellaneous designing, but he soon achieved a reputation, and was afterwards em- ployed constantly in decorative works. In 1645- 48 he executed a series of twenty-two notable pictures from the life of Saint Bruno, for the Chartreuse monks in Paris. They are now in the Louvre. Another important work of Le- sueur's was the decoration of three salons in the Hotel Lambert de Thorigny, with mj'thological subjects. He was called 'the French Raphael,' from the purity and gi'ace of his conceptions. In the religious pictures painted by him for Paris churches he shows genuine devotional feel- ing, but he is never a satisfactory colorist. In many of his works he was assisted by his broth- ers Pierre. Philippe, and Antoine,and his brother- in-law Gousse. LESUEUR, .Iean Baptiste Cic£ron (1794- 1883). A French architect, born at Clairefon- taine ( Seine-et-Oise ). He was a pupil of Per- eier, studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and won the Prix de Rome in 1810. He became a member of the Institute in 1846. and professor at the Ecole in 18.53. His principal work, in which he was associated with Godde. was the extension of the Hotel de Ville of Paris in 1835- 54. He also built the Conservatory of llusic in Geneva, Switzerland. His publications on archi- tecture include: Vues des monuments antiques de Rome, with Alaux (1827) ; Architecture itnlienne ou 'palais, maisons et autres Mifices de I'llalie moderne, with Callet (1829); and Chronologie des rois d'Egypte (1848-50), crowned by the Academy. LE SUEUR, .JE.4.X Fraxcois (1760-1837). A French composer, born at Drucat-Plessiel, near Abbeville. As a child he was chorister at Abbe- ville, and when fourteen was sent to college at Amiens. In 1779 he left there to become music- master at the Seez Cathedral, and a little later went to Paris, where he was made assistant master at the Church of the Innocent.1. ^^^lile there he received from the Abb*^ Roze his sole musical instruction. In 1781 he accepted the post of music-master at the Cathedral of Dijon, and from there went to Le Mans (1783). and subsequently to Tours. In 1784 he returned to Paris, and two years later won in competition