Gerard The Nerval (Gerard Labeunie), a French author, born in Paris, May 21, 1808, died there, Jan. 24, 1855. He published when 18 years old a series of poems entitled Elegies uationalcs, and in 1828 a new translation of Faust. He wrote dramas either by himself or in conjunction with Alexandre Dumas, one of which, Leo Burckart, was published in 1839 with notes. In 1850, in conjunction with Mery, he produced Le chariot d'enfant, a metrical translation of an Indian drama, and a series of philosophical and biographical essays upon eccentric characters, entitled Les illumines, ou les precurseurs du socialisme (1852). On the morning following the anniversary of the death of Jenny Colon, an actress whom he loved devotedly, he was found hanging and dead in the street.