Capefigue

Capefigue, BAPTISTE HONORÉ RAYMOND, French author, was born at Marseilles in 1802; and in 1821 came from Aix to Paris to complete his juridical course, but from 1830 devoted himself to literature. He died 23d December 1872. Historian, antiquary, and politician, Capefigue was first and foremost a romanticist. The best of his works, which fill nearly a hundred volumes, was almost the first—Histoire de Philippe Auguste (1829).