Feipel, Louis Nicholas (1883-1968). American librarian and bibliographer. Born in Chicago, IL, son of Nicholas Feipel and Mary Hottoa Feipel, both immigrants from Luxembourg, Louis Feipel attended Northwestern University from 1904 to 1906, then became an assistant librarian at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD. In 1914 he became an administrator at the Brooklyn, NY, Public Library, where he remained for thirty-five years. In the 1920s he began his hobby of carefully reading current books and writing detailed letters to the authors, listing errors in the editing, typesetting, and proofreading of each book, as well as raising points about grammar, usages, and inconsistencies. According to a 1930 profile in the New Yorker, Feipel had received about 300 responses from the authors to whom he had written.

Saint-Vallier, Jean-Baptiste de la Croix de Chevrières de (1653-1727). Second bishop of Quebec. Born in Grenoble, France, to an aristocratic family, Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Vallier became a doctor of theology at age 19. Made an almoner for Louis XIV, he remained uncorrupted by court life, and was ordained a priest in 1681. He was chosen to be bishop of Quebec upon Bishop Laval’s resignation in 1684. Zealous in ministry, he established convents, schools, hospitals, and new parishes, but offended many of his clergy and lay people, and refused calls to resign. He was captured by the British in 1701, and even after his release he was kept in France until 1713. Saint-Vallier is a prominent character in Cather’s novel of Quebec, Shadows on the Rock (1931).