[Gustave Auguste de Beaumont de la Bonninière]. French advocate and publicist, born in Sarthe, February 1802; died at Tours on the 2nd of April 1866. Both he and the lady whom, in 1836, he married, were grandchildren of Lafayette. He became a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1840; of the National Assembly in 1848, and in 1851 he was imprisoned for his opposition to the coup d’état of December. The works by which he is best known in America are Marie; or Slavery in the United States (1835), and The Penitentiary System of the United States (1832), both founded upon personal observations during a visit to this country, in company with M. de Tocqueville, in 1831; and Ireland, Political, Social and Religious (1839).
