Victor Arlincourt, viscount d', a French poet and.novelist, born in 1789, died Jan. 22, 1856. His father, a farmer of the public revenue, died by the guillotine in the revolution. Victor commended himself to Napoleon's notice by publishing in 1810 an allegorical poem in his honor, entitled Une matinee de Charlemagne, for which he was rewarded with two court offices. He afterward undertook an epic, the hero of which was still Charlemagne, or rather Napoleon, but it was unfinished on the fall of the empire. D'Arlincourt easily transferred his political allegiance to the Bourbons, but did not meekwith favor from Louis XVIII. The publication of his Caroleide was soon followed by several novels, Le Solitaire, L'Etran-gere, Le Renegat, Lpsiboe, and Ismalie, the last being in rhyme. These eccentric works acquired an equivocal sort of celebrity, Le Solitaire, of which Charles the Bold was the hero, having been translated into several languages and widely circulated. His tragedy, Le Siege de Paris, played at the Theatre-Francais, was received with such bursts of laughter that the actors did not attempt a second performance.

In the latter part of his life he fell into obscurity.