Francois Juste Marie Raynouard, a French author, born in Brignolles, Provence, Sept. 18, 1761, died at Passy, near Paris, Oct. 27, 1836. Elected an assistant deputy to the convention, he sided with the Girondists, and after their fall was detained in prison till the revolution of Thermidor (July 27, 1794). In 1803 he obtained a prize at the French academy for a poem entitled La vertu nécessaire dans les ré-publiques; and in the following year another for his Socrate dans le temple d'Aglaure. In 1805 his tragedy Les templiers was very successful. He was a member of the corps légis-latif from 1806 to 1813, and was elected a member of the French academy in 1807. During the hundred days Raynouard was offered the title of councillor of the university and the post of minister of justice, both of which he declined. He published Choix de poésies originates des troubadours (6 vols. 8vo, Paris, 1816-'21). His Lexique roman, ou Dictionnaire de la langue des troubadours, comparée aux autres langues de l'Europe latine, was posthumously published (6 vols. 8vo, 1838-'44). He was elected perpetual secretary of the French academy in 1817, but declined the usual salary attached to this office.

Soon afterward, to save his brother from bankruptcy, he voluntarily gave up all his property.