[Jean François Honore]. French politician and author, born at Tremblade, France, on the 29th of January 1811. From being secretary to a subprefect, he rose to a subchiefship in the Department of Finance, which office he held until 1866, when he decided to devote his entire attention to literature, his official duties having told severely upon his health. His more important writings, largely of an historical nature, are Madame de Maintenon and her Family; Louis XV and his Family; Madame de Pompadour; General of the Army; and The Last Abbé of the Court. The Unedited Works of Piron were published by him. Of poetry and prose sketches he has written Through the Flowering Bushes; The Daughter of Dancourt; and The Exile of Ovid.
