Louis Boivin (1649–1724) was a French writer and the elder brother of Jean Boivin the Younger. Life A member of the Académie des inscriptions, he wrote Mémoires sur la Chronologie in which, according to the Dictionnaire Bouillet he jumped too easily to his derivations. Sources External links 1649 births 1724 deaths 17th-century French writers 17th-century French male writers 18th-century French writers 18th-century French male writers Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres