Lachaise, François de, a French Jesuit, an extremely politic member of the fraternity in the reign of Louis XIV.; had a country house E. of Paris, the garden of which is now the cemetery Père la Chaise (1624‒1709).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Lacépède, Comte de * Lachesis