Gustave Auguste De Beaumont De La Bomiere, a French advocate and writer, born in the department of Sarthe, Feb. 16, 1802, died at Tours, March 2, 1866. In 1831 he was sent with Alexis de Tocqueville to the United States to make inquiry into the penitentiary system; and the result of their visit was a report, Du systeme penitentiaire aux Etats- Unis et de son application en France. Besides this work, Beaumont produced a kind of novel, Marie, ou de l'esclavage aux Etats- Unis, which has been translated and reprinted in this country. In 1839 he published L'lrlande politique, sociale et religieuse, which was rewarded, as well as the preceding work, with the Monthyon prize of the French institute. In 1840 Beaumont was elected to the chamber of deputies, sided with the so-called dynastic opposition, and favored electoral reform in 1847. In the constituent assembly in 1848 he was a member of the committee on foreign affairs. Gen. Cavai-gnac appointed him ambassador to England, which position he resigned on the election of Louis Napoleon as president. He was elected to the legislative assembly, where he did not play a conspicuous part, and after the coup d'etat of December, 1851, he lived in retirement.

In 1836 he married his cousin, a granddaughter of Gen. Lafayette.