JULES CLARETIE, novelist, dramatist, and essayist, was born at Limoges, France, December 3d, 1840. He is a member of the French Academy and his writings have made him one of the most popular of the Immortals. Among his best-known novels are The American Woman (1892), The Million (1882), and Madeleine Bertin (1868). Among his works as a historian and essayist are The Revolution of 187071, Paris Besieged, and Five Years After.