Mably, Gabriel Bonnet De, French author, was born at Grenoble, brother of Condillac; educated at Lyons, and became secretary to Cardinal Tencin, but most of his life was spent in study, and he died in Paris; his “Romans and the French” is not complimentary to his countrymen; he was a great admirer of the ancients (1709‒1785).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Mabillon, Jean * Mabusa, Jan