French writer, born at Bergerac, Dordogne, on the 10th of February 1810; died in 1887. He was for some time employed in the department of public instruction, and subsequently became director of the archives in the Bureau of Foreign Affairs. He published Éloge de Blaise Pascal (1842); Pensées, Fragments et Lettres de Blaise Pascal, restored to their original form (1844); Mémoires de Madame Roland (1864); and Fragments de Littérature Morale et Politique (1865).
