text:  Le Sage was born in 1668 at Sargan a small town near Vannes in Bretagne; at twenty-seven he published a translation of Aristoenaetus; and declining from his love of literature the hopes of advancement which had he taken orders were within his reach he came to Paris where he contracted an intimate friendship with the Abbe de Lyonne who settled a pension on him taught him Spanish and bequeathed to him his library--consisting among other works of several Spanish manuscripts--at his death