The surname "Fabri" was probably a Latinization of a name like Smit, Smeets or perhaps Le Fèvre (all meaning "smith") (Wegman 1992, 192).
Jacques Le Fèvre (b. at Lisieux towards the middle of the seventeenth century; d. 1 July 1716, at Paris) was a French Roman Catholic theologian and controversialist.
Jean Bruno Wladimir François de Paule Le Fèvre d'Ormesson, Count of Ormesson (born June 16, 1925) is a French novelist whose work mostly consists of partially or totally autobiographic novels.
He was the eldest son of John Lambert (d. 1702), a merchant of Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Île de Ré, France, by Marie Le Fevre.