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Mathurin François Adolphe de Lescure (1833–1892)
Lescure, Mathurin François Adolphe de (lā-kür’). A French littérateur and historian; born at Bretenoux (Lot), in 1833; died at Clamart (Seine), May 6, 1892. Successively attached to the Ministry of State and the Senate, he acquired a unique reputation by a series of essays and monographs on the Revolutionary and other periods in French history. Among more than forty publications are: ‘Confessions of the Abbess de Chelles’ (1863); ‘Marie Antoinette and her Family’ (1865); ‘Mary Stuart’ (1871); ‘Illustrious Mothers’ (1881); ‘Love under the Terror’ (1882); ‘Rivarol and French Society during the Revolution and Emigration’ (1883), his best work, crowned by the Academy; ‘Châteaubriand’ (1892); and numerous memoirs.