Baran'te, Amable

PROSPER BRUGIÈRE, BARON DE, a French historian and statesman, and a member of the French Academy, was B. at Riom, in 1782. In 1805, he became auditor to the Council of State. In 1809, he-published, anonymously, a work on The Literature of France during the Eighteenth Century, which excited the enthusiasm of Madame de Staël, and called forth the eulogium of Göthe. In 1822 appeared from his pen The Commons and the Aristocracy, and subsequently his greatest work, The History of the Dukes of Burgundy, of the House of Valois, from 1364 to 1477, which has placed him among the first of the French historians of the day. In 1851, he published a History of the Na tional Convention, ., and in 1859, a Life of Mathieu Molé. D. 1866. Barata'ria Bay, in the S.E. part of Louisiana , extending N. from the Gulf of Mexico, between the parishes of Jefferson and Plaque mine. This bay is about 15 m. long by 6 wide. It, and the lagoons branching out of it, were rendered notorious about the years 1810-12 as being both the head-quarters and rendezvous of the celebrated Lafitte and his buccaneers.