Vincent Antoine Arnault, a French author, born in Paris in January, 1766, died near Havre, Sept. 16, 1834. He became first known to fame by two tragedies, Marius d Minturnes and Lucrece. After the massacres of September, 1792, he went to London and Brussels, and on his return in 1793 was arrested, but soon set free. In 1797 Bonaparte sent him on a mission to the Ionian Islands. In 1799 he produced in Paris a tragedy, Les Venitiens, suggested by his residence at Venice, which was very favorably received by Napoleon himself, before whom he delivered several lectures on that city. He became in the same year member of the French academy, in 1805 vice president and in 1808 principal secretary of the council of the university. All these offices were taken from him after the emperor's downfall, but restored to him during the hundred days. Besides his tragedies he wrote a number of miscellaneous prose works and poems, a collection of fables, and Vie politique et militaire de Napoleon (3 vols. fob, Paris, 1822), and prepared with Jay, Jouy, and De Norvins the Nouvelle biographie des contemporains (20 vols. 8vo,'1820-'25).