[Pierre Marie Augustin]. French man of letters, son of the historian Charles Auguste Désiré Filon (1800–1875); born in Paris in 1841. His father became professor of history at Douai, and eventually “inspecteur d’académie” in Paris; his principal works were Histoire comparée de France et de l’Angleterre (1832), Histoire de l’Europe au XVIe siècle (1838), La Diplomatie française sous Louis XV. (1843), Histoire de l’Italie méridionale (1849), Histoire du sénat romain (1850), Histoire de la démocratie athénienne (1854). Educated at the École normale, Augustin Filon was appointed tutor to the prince imperial and accompanied him to England, where he remained for some years. He is the author of Guy Patin, sa vie, sa correspondance (1862); Nos grands-pères (1887); Prosper Mérimée (1894); Sous la tyrannie (1900). On English subjects he has written chiefly under the pseudonym of Pierre Sandrié, Les Mariages de Londres (1875); Histoire de la littérature anglaise (1883); Le Théâtre anglais (1896), and La Caricature en Angleterre (1902). In 1910 he published a short biography of Marie Stuart, and in 1911 L’Angleterre d’Edouard VII. and a dramatic poem Shakespeare amoureux. His Souvenirs et documents, relating to his former pupil, the Prince Imperial, appeared in 1914. He died at Croydon on the 13th of May 1916. (See authored article: Eugène Labiche.)
