VICOMTE DE (1854-), French dramatist, was born at Metz on the 10th of June 1854. He was educated at the Ecole Centrale as a civil engineer, the family wealth being derived from smelting works. He began his literary career with two novels, L'Ete des fruits secs (1885 ) and Le Sauvetage du grand duc (1889). In 1891 three pieces were accepted by the Theatre Libre. The list of his plays includes L'Envers d'une sainte (1892); Les Fossiles (1892), a picture of the prejudices of the provincial nobility; L'Invitee (1893), the story of a mother who returns to her children after twenty years' separation; L' Amour brode (1893), which was withdrawn by the author from the Theatre Francais after the second representation; La Figurante (1896); Le Repas du lion (1898), dealing with the relations between capital and labour; La Fille sauvage (1902), the history of the development of the religious idea; La Nouvelle Idole (1899), dealing with the worship of science; and Le Coup d'aile (1906) .
See also Contemporary Review for August 1903.