Born Nov

14, 1819: died Jan. 26, 1904. A French writer and journalist. In 1842 he was - made profe or of rhetoric at Bourges, and shortly after - occupied the same chair at Paris. He entered journalism as a liberal, and was imprisoned and exiled in 1851. He returned in 1859, and became one of the editors of the "Journal des Débats." In 1876 he was elected to the chamber as a republican, and in 1881 he was elected a senator for life. He published a number of anthologies with comments, "Les court is anes grecques," "Le mal qu'on a dit des femmes," "Le bien qu'on a dit des femmes," etc. (1855-58), "La vie des comédiens" (1860), "Études sur Aristophane" (1867), "Le peuple et la bourgeoisie" (1881), "Benjamin Franklin" (1882). From 1882 to 1886 he pub lished his lectures at the Collège de France, called "Le romanticism des cla iques," much enlarged and revised. Des chapel les (dā-sha-pel'). Born 1780: died 1847. A celebrated whist-player. He published a treatise on whist in 1839.