ANTOINE

See also:

• VINCENT (or VINCENTIUS), ST
• VINCENT, GEORGE (1796-1831?)
• VINCENT, MARY ANN (1818-1887)

VINCENT

See also:

• ANTOINE VINCENT ARNAULT (1766-1834)

ARNAULT (1766-1834)  , French dramatist, was born in Paris in January 1766 . His first play, Marius Minturnes (1791), immediately established his reputation . A year later he followed up his first success with a second republican tragedy, Lucrece . He left France during the Terror and on his return was arrested by the revolutionary authorities, but was liberated through the intervention of Fabre d'Eglantine and ethers . He was commissioned by Bonaparte in 1797 with the reorganization of the Ionian Islands, and was nominated to the Institute and made secretary general of the university . He was faithful to his patron through his misfortunes, and after the Hundred Days remained in exile until 1819 . In 1829 he was627 re-elected to the Academy and became perpetual secretary in 1833 . Othiers of his plays are Blanche et Montcassin, ou les . Venitiens (1798); and Germanicus (1816), the performance of which was the occasion of a disturbance in the parterre which threatened serious political complications, . His tragedies are perhaps less known now than his Fables (1813, 1815 and 1826), which are written in very graceful verse . Arnault collaborated in a Vie politique et militaire de Napoleon (1822), and wrote some very interesting Souvenirs d'un sexagenaire' (1833), which contain much out-of-the-way information about the history of the years previous to 1804 . Arnault died at Goderville on the, 16th of September 1834 .

His eldest son, Emilien Lucien (1787-1863), wrote several tragedies, the leading roles in which were interpreted by

Talma . See Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol . 7 . Arnault's (Euvres completes (4 vols.) were published at the Hague and Paris in 1818-1819, and again (8 vols.) at Paris in 1824 .