[pen-name of Olivier Gloux]. French novelist, born in Paris on the 13th of September 1818. He made use of the materials collected in a roving and adventurous youth and early manhood in numerous romances in the style of J. Fenimore Cooper. Among the best of them are Les Trappeurs de l’Arkansas (1858); La Grande flibuste (1860); Nuits mexicaines (1863); La Forêt vierge (1870). He died in Paris on the 20th of June 1883. Many of his novels have been translated into English.
