"RENE BOYLESVE, the pen-name of Rene Marie Auguste Tardiveau (1867-), French novelist, who was born at La Haye Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, April 14 1867. He was educated at Poitiers and Tours, and afterwards adopted literature as a profession. His first work was Le Medecin des Dames de Neans (1896), and henceforth he wrote voluminously, publishing not only novels but many short stories. He is a close observer of the provincial society of France. His later works include Sainte Marie des Fleurs (1897); Le Parfum des Iles Borromees (1898); L'Enfant a la Balustrade (1904); Le Bel Avenir (1905); Mon Amour (1908); Tu n'es plus Rien (1917); and Nymphes dansant avec des Satyres, a volume of tales (1920). He was received into the French Academy on March 20 1919.