Octavo Feiillet, a French novelist and dramatist, born in St. L6, La Manche, Aug. 11, 1812. He was educated in Paris in the college of Louis-le-Grand, and in 1845 he wrote, under the pseudonyme of Desire Hazard, in conjunction with Paul Bocage and Albert Aubert, a romance entitled Le grand vieil-lard, published in the National. Since then he has written a large number of romances, comedies, dramas, and farces, nearly all of which have been received favorably. In 1862 he succeeded Scribe as a member of the French academy. He was afterward appointed librarian of the imperial residences, which position he held until the revolution of Sept. 4, 1870. Among his novels are: Polichinelle (1846); Onesta (1848); Redemption (1849); Bellah (1850); Le cheveu Mane (1853); La petite comtesse (1856); Le roman d'un jeune homme pauvre (1858), which has been translated into many languages; Histoire de Sibylle (1862), scarcely less popular than the preceding; and Monsieur de Camors (1867), a story remarkable for invention and vigor, but regarded as exceedingly demoralizing in its tendencies.

His plays include La unit terrible (1845), Le bourgeois de Rome (1846), La crise (1848), Le pour et le contre (1840), Dalila (1857), Montjoye (1863), La belle au hois dormant (1865), Le cus de conscience (1867), Julie (1869), and Le Sphinx (1874), the last the most sensational of them all. He has written also, jointly with Paul Bocage, a number of other dramas, and has published several poems.