Andrieux, FRANÇOIS GUILLAUME JEAN STANISLAUS

Andrieux, FRANÇOIS GUILLAUME JEAN STANISLAUS, a French scholar and dramatist, born at Strasburg, May 6, 1759. He began life as an advocate and promising politician, but his political career was cut short by Bonaparte, and he turned to literature as a calling. On the restoration in 1814, he was appointed to a chair in the Collège de France, was admitted to the Academy two years later, and made perpetual secretary in 1829. He died May 10, 1833. Of his many comedies, the best are Les Étourdis (1788) and La Comédienne (1816). He wrote also a tragedy, Junius Brutus, and numerous poems, full of grace and spirit, in the form of fables, tales, romances, and epistles.