Florian

Florian, JEAN PIERRE DE, a French novelist and fabulist, who was born in 1755, and died in 1794. He was a literary pupil of Voltaire, by whom he was held in very high esteem. He wrote two prose romances (Numa Pompilius and Gonzalve de Cordoue), and a number of pastorales, nouvelles, plays, and fables. He appears to most advantage in his Fables, which are neatly and often wittily turned. His romances are cold and languid in interest; they are fair examples, however, of the correct but colourless French prose of the 18th century.