Pierre Carlet De Chamblain De Marivaux

Pierre Carlet De Chamblain De Marivaux, a French author, horn in Paris in 1088, died there, Feb. 12, 1763. He wrote about 30 comedies, the greater part for the Italian theatre, and now seldom performed. Among the best are Le jeu de Vamour et du hasard, the author's dramatic masterpiece, and Les fausses confidences. lie is now known chiefly by his romances, La vie de Mariane and Le paysan parvenu. He also wrote Le spectateur fran-cois and Le philosojyhe indigent, distinguished by an eccentric and affected style, called after him marivaudage. He was elected a member of the French academy in 1743, Voltaire being a rival candidate.

Pierre Cheri Lafont

Pierre Cheri Lafont, a French actor, born in Bordeaux in 1801, died in Paris, April 19, 1873. He began life as a surgeon in the navy, went to Paris in 1822, and made his debut at the Vaudeville in 1823. From 1839 to 1849 he achieved brilliant successes at the Varietes as the chevalier de St. Georges and in other plays. In 1855 he resumed his connection with the Vaudeville, and in 1859 appeared at the Gymnase, when his personation of the marquis in Les Ganaches (1862) and of Raoul in Montjoye (1863) increased his reputation. His more recent successes were won in Raba-gas and Le centenaire. He was a comic actor of singular elegance and grace, and was as popular in London as in Paris.

Pierre Clement Eugene Pelletan

Pierre Clement Eugene Pelletan, a French author, born at Royan, Charente-Inferieure, Oct. 29, 1813. He studied law in Paris, and was a writer for the Presse from 1839 to 1849, subsequently for Lamartine's organ Le Bien public, and for the Steele from 1853 to 1855, when he returned to the Presse. He was elected to the legislative body in 1863, afterward founded the Tribune, a radical weekly journal, and was again elected in 1869. On the proclamation of the republic, Sept. 4,1870, he became a member of the government for national defence. At the election of Feb. 8 he received a larger majority than any of the other ten successful candidates for the national assembly in the department of Bouches-du-Rh6ne. His principal works are: La lampe etexnte, a novel (2 vols., 1840); Profession de foi du XIXe siecle (1853; 2d ed., 1854); Heures de travail (2 vols., 1854); La nouvelle Babylone, a tirade against luxury (1862); and Adresse au roi Coton (1863).

Pierre Francois Henri Labrouste

Pierre Francois Henri Labrouste, a French architect, born in Paris, May 11, 1801. He studied at the college Ste. Barbe and afterward under Leon Vaudoyer and Hippolyte Lebas, entered the school of fine arts in 1819, and took the grand prize in 1824. In 1843 he began the construction of the new library of Ste. Genevieve, his most noted work and the best existing example of the romantic or neo-Greek style, of which he was one of the founders and the most distinguished master. Among his other works are the hospital of Lausanne, the prison of Alexandria, and the school of Ste. Barbe des Champs.