American diplomat and author, born in New Orleans on the 27th of November 1830. From 1852 to 1856 he was engaged in teaching, being at the same time connected with several papers in New Orleans, and in 1857 he established L’Union de Lafourcher in Thibodeaux, LA; was one of the founders of La Renaissance Louisianaise; served as captain in the Confederate army and as assistant secretary to their diplomatic commission in Paris. After the war he was secretary of the Roumanian legation in Paris (1869); official translator of the Alabama Commission at Geneva (1872); United States delegate to the international metric conference (1873); and to the conference for protection of submarine cables (1882). After 1875 he was secretary or chargé d’affaires in the United States embassy at Paris. He wrote L’Anthropologie (1861).
