PETRUS

BOREL  , whose full name was PIERRE JOSEPH BOREL D'HAUTERIVE (1809-1859), French writer, was born at Lyons on the 26th of June ISo9 . His father had been ruined by taking part in the resistance offered by the Lyonnese royalists against the Convention, and Petrus Borel was educated in Paris to be an architect . He soon abandoned his professionto become one of the most violent partisans of the Romantic movement . His extravagant sentiments were illustrated in various volumes: Rhapsodies (1832), poems; Champavert, contes immoraux (1833); Madame Putiphar (1839), &c . His works did not rescue him from poverty, but through the kindness of Theophile Gautier and Mme de Girardin he obtained a small place in the civil service . He died at Mostaganem in Algeria on the 14th of July 1859 . See Jules Claretie, Petrus Borel, le Lycanthrope (1865) ; and Ch . Asselineau, Bibliographie romantique (1872) .