François-Marie de Marsy , born in 1714 with Paris where he died the December 16th 1763, is a man of letters French.

Admitted strong young person at the Jesuit S, Marsy returned later in the world. Its first works were Latin poems which art distinguishes from versification, with much of pump and research. He then wrote in French works of an elegant style among which Templum Tragœdiæ, Carmen (Paris, 1734, in-12); Pictura, Carmen (Paris, 1736, in-12), poem that Lemierre declares full with beauties and who was used to him as guide for Of the Heart of the animals (1737, in-12); History of Marie Stuart (London, 1742, 3 vol. in-12); Dictionary shortened of painting and architecture (Paris, 1746, 2 vol. in-12); Modern history of the Chinese, the Japanese, the Indians, etc (Paris, 1754 - 1778, 30 vol. in-12), whose 12 volumes only are of Marsy and the others of Adrien Richer; Rationale of Bayle (London, 1755, 4 vol. in-12), collection of the most unfavourable passages of Bayle to the religion; he was condemned by the Parliament and made put Marsy a few months at the Bastille; modern Rabelais, or the Works of Rabelais put at the range of the majority of the readers (Amsterdam, 1752, 8 vol. in-12).

Marsy translated from English the Mémoires of Jacques Melvill (Edinburgh, 1745, 3 vol. in-12).