Jules Arnand Claretie, a French author, born in Limoges, Dec. 3, 1840. He was educated in Paris, and became a journalist and lecturer, but was forbidden to deliver public addresses in 1865 and again in 1868, and in the latter year he was also subjected to penalties for some of his publications on account of their ultra-republicanism. As a friend of Victor Noir he appeared as a witness in the trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte at Tours in March, 1870. In the early part of the Franco-German war he followed the army as correspondent for the Assemblee Rationale, and after the downfall of the second empire he officiated for a time as chief of the communal libraries in the hotel de ville. At the election of Feb. 8, 1871, he was defeated as a candidate for the national assembly, and in February, 1872, he founded the Corsaire newspaper. He has written Voyages d'un Parisieti (1865); Mademoiselle Cachemire (1867); Les derniers montagnards, a historical essay (1867); Lafamille des gueux and Raymond Lindey, dramas in which he hadcolaborers(1869); Paris assiege - tableaux et souvenirs (1871); Histoire de la guerre de 1870-1871 (2 vols., 1872); and Le roman des soldats (1872).