Aimard

Aimard, GUSTAVE, the French Fenimore Cooper, was born in Paris, 13th September 1818, and shipping as a cabin-boy to America, spent those ten years of adventure in Arkansas and Mexico which furnished the themes of most of his novels. He travelled also in Spain, Turkey, and the Caucasus; in Paris, served as an officer of the Garde Mobile (1848); organised the Franc-tireurs de la Presse against the Germans (1870-71); and after some years' confinement in an asylum, died 20th June 1883. Of his very numerous novels, published between 1858 and 1878, twenty-six have been translated into English.