Armand Barbes, a French revolutionist, born at Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, Sept. 18, 1809, died at the Hague, June 26, 1870. He went to southern France as an infant, and was educated for the bar. On the death of his father, who left him a large fortune, he went to Paris (1830), where he soon became conspicuous as a member of secret political societies. He was imprisoned for several months in 1834 on charges which were not substantiated. In 1835 he was arrested on suspicion of complicity in Fieschi's attempt at regicide, and soon afterward sentenced to a year's imprisonment for secretly making gunpowder. In 1839 he was sentenced to death as ringleader of an insurrection which resulted in the murder of Lieut. Drouineau; but his life was spared, and during his imprisonment he wrote Deux jours de con-damnation d mort (Paris, 1848; 2d ed., with a letter of Louis Blanc). He recovered his liberty after the revolution of 1848, and was elected to the constituent assembly. For a new attempt at insurrection in May of that year, with Hubert, Raspail, and Blanqui, he was sentenced to perpetual imprisonment at Belle-Isle-en-Mer. He refused to accept a pardon from the emperor Napoleon in 1854, and being turned out of prison he went to Paris and asked permission to return to jail; but this being declined, he went to Spain, and afterward to Holland.