Gilles-François de Beauvais
 Gilles-François de Beauvais (7 July 1693 - c. 1773) was a French Jesuit writer and preacher.Born at Le Mans France de Beauvais entered the Society of Jesus in 1709 and taught belles-lettres rhetoric and philosophy. After ordination he was assigned to preach and give the Advent course at Court in 1744 during which year he published his Life of Ignatius Azevedo modelled on the original Italian biography by Father Cabral (a pseudonym of Giulio Cesare Cordara 1743).