French poet and art critic, born in Paris on the 29th of April 1845; when he was twenty years old a one-act comedy of his was given at the Comédie Française. He followed this by several very successful comedies in verse. During the siege of 1870 he wrote several patriotic poems—Poèmes de la Guerre. Among his later writings are Mes Moulins; Figarismes de Caliban; and Théophile Gautier, Entretiens Souvenirs et Correspondance.
