Antoinc Francois Claude Ferrand, count, a French politician and historian, born in Paris, July 4, 1751, died there, Jan. 17,1825. At the age of 18 years he was admitted a counsellor in the parliament of Paris by special dispensation. He left Paris in 1789, and attached himself to the prince of Conde; and after the death of Louis XVI. he was appointed a member of the council of regency. He returned to France in 1801, devoted himself to literature, and published a work, on which he had been long engaged, entitled Be l'esprit de Vhistoire, which was a bold defence of absolute monarchy. He was engaged to complete Rulhiere's unfinished Histoire de Vanarchie de Pologne et du demembrement de cette repu-l)Jiqve; but the imperial police prevented the publication on the ground that the work belonged to the government, it having been originally written for the instruction of Louis XVI., then dauphin. After the restoration of the Bourbons he was appointed minister of state and postmaster general. He was a member of the academy, and author of several dramatic and a large number of political works, the hitter of which were conservative and many of them reactionary in their tendency.