Genoude (originally Genoud), Antoine Engene do, a French journalist and author, born in Montelimart in February, 1792, died in Hy-eres, April 19, 1849. He was the son of a cabaret keeper. He began his career as a political writer for the royalist journal Le Con-servateur. In 1820 he founded the journal Le Defenseur, and in 1821 he bought the Etoile, which has since borne the name of La Gazette de France. He abandoned his intention of entering the priesthood when, in 1822, he was ennobled by Louis XVIII.; but in 1835, after the death of his wife, he took orders, and began to preach in Paris. The archbishop of Paris soon ordered him to quit either preaching or journalism, and he quit preaching. In 1846 he was elected by the city of Toulouse to the chamber of deputies, where he acted with the legitimist opposition, He differed, however, in many points from the legitimist party, defending universal suffrage, national representation,, and legitimacy allied with popular sovereignty.

In February, 1848, at the outbreak of the revolution, he allied himself with the revolutionary party in order to attempt a restoration of the Bourbons by a general vote of the people. When he saw that his efforts were fruitless he retired from public life. The bold advocacy of his principles in the Gazette de France involved him in 03 lawsuits, which cost him more than 100,000 francs. He wrote Lecons et modeles de litterature sacree (1837); Histoire de France (10 vols., l844-'7); a new French translation of the Bible, with the Latin version, a translation of the works of the lathers of the first three centuries, of those of St. Clement of Alexandria, etc.