BARBIER, HENRI AUGUSTE French dramatist and poet, was born in Paris. Inspired by the revolution of July he poured forth a series of eager, vigorous poems, de nouncing, crudely enough, the evils of the time. They are spoken of collectively as the Jambes (1831), though the designation is not strictly applicable to all. As the name suggests, they are modelled on the verse of Andre Chenier. The rest of Barbier's poems are forgotten, and when, in 1869, he received the long delayed honour of admission to the Academy, Montalembert expressed the general sentiment in his Barbier? mais it est mort! See Portraits contemporains, vol. ii.