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of making epigrams, and of giving to his 
verfes that piguancy, and that originality, 
‘which conftitute the true French Vaude- 
ville, to the compofition of which his’ 
friends have recommended him to devote ° 
a portion of his time. 
CHARLES DEGRAIN 
Has diftinguifhed himfelf by his Herezde 
upon the captivity of La FayeTTE, with 
hiftorical notes till then unknown to the 
‘ public, upon the illufirious prifoners of Ol- 
mutz in Moravia. This poem raifes a 
favourable idea of the writer’s heart, and 
evinces no {mail degree of courage in tak- 
ing up the ihtereft of the American hero, 
when numbers among the French thought 
it moft prudent to forbear mentioning his 
name, 
FAUCHET, 
The friend and companion of the ftudies 
of Camille- Defmoulins, and of feveral 
other perfonages famous in the revolution, 
in which he feemed as capable, of figuring 
as any of them ; but, happily for himfelf, 
was faved by a difpofition to indolence. 
No other reafon can be affigned than this 
tardinefs, for his not having ftumbled and 
. fallen in traverfing that redoubtable period. 
His Defpotifme del Agemblée Nationale de- 
woilé, his Reponfe au Domine Salvum, Gc. 
de Lepelletier, and other pieces of this na- 
ture, publifhed in the fervour of the revo- 
lution, are written with warmth and ele- 
gance; and announce*the fcholar capable 
of undertaking works of much higher im- 
portance. Fauchet was fent ambaffador 
to the United States cf America; but at 
prefent lives retired, and refigned to what 
he loves. He has Otia nofira tor his 
motto. { 
WILLEMAIN D’ABANCOURT+e 
Willemain is the author of La Bergere 
des Pyrennées (the Shepherdefs of the Alps 
- Sketches of Living French Authors. 
7 - 
[July t 
and as the public has not, like himfelf, the 
gift of prophecy, no one can tell what is 
peculiar to him, or his qualifications. The 
critics obferve, however, that if, as in the 
cafe of his archetype, he has been confult~ 
ed by Ariftus, he has been more miftaken 
than the Salamine hiftorian, in his account 
af the modern Alexander’s expedition, 
ANDRIEUX. 
A wit made the following epigram 
againft Ducis, when he was admitted into 
the French academy : 
Un fauteuil a Ducis? 
Eh oui; l’Academie 
Veut donner fon gratis 
Comme la Comedie. 

The modeft emulator of Shakefpeare 
certainly did not deferve this farcafm, 
which has by the Parifian critics been ap- 
plied anew with no lefs injuftice to Andri- 
eux upon his being received into the Na- 
tional Inftitute. In times however of lefs 
dearth with regard to profound writers, it 
may be debated, whether a few ingenious 
romances, as many fugitive poefies agree- 
ably turned, with a pretty comedy or two, 
are not titles rather too flender for admif- 
fion into the National Inftitute of France. 
‘But probably thofe who have appreciated 
his merits have not only given him a bonus 
for what he' has done, but a letter of credit 
for what he is going todo. } 
MAD. JOLLIVEAU. 
Though few female authors can expec& 
to arrive at the celebrity of a Dacier, the 
path to literary fame and immortality is 
equally open to the tender fex. Mad. 
Jolliveau has not had the honour to defend 
Homer, nor has fhe given the world a ver- 
fion of the Odyfley, but the has publifhed 
fome very pretty little poems. She has been 
advifed not to make any more verfes upon 
is not forgotten), des Matinées de Paphos, fugar; the phyfical and chemical parts of 
dune Fournée d’ Henri IV. and of feveral 
anonymous works, but of which the author 
is not lefs known. If tafte, purity of 
ftyle, and a profound knowledge of the 
human heart, were all the qualities looked 
for in awriter, Willemain has left nothing 
for his readers to complain of. 
JOIGNY. 
By turns, author, actor, manager, and 
controller of the theatre, Joigny proves. 
himfelf a new Profeus, who can exhibit 
himfelf every day under a thoufand forms ; 
the poem already printed under that name, 
being deemed the reverie of fweet. The 
critic, who has analyfed her laft pro- 
duétion, warns her from choofing abftraé& 
fubjegts for the exercife of her pen, left the 
incur the ridicule which gave rife to the 
following lines: . 
Jadis une belle en phyfique 
Ne connoiffoit qu'un point uniques 
Vrai jeu denfant 5 
Mais a prefent elle compofe, 
Et veut remonter a la caufe 
Du mouyement. 
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