BOYLESVE, RENE (1867-1926), pen name of Rene Tardiveau, French novelist, who was born at La Haye-Descartes (Indre-et-Loire). He began his education at the Jesuit college of Poitiers, and passed from there to Tours. He completed his studies at the f aculte de lettres of Paris, the f aculte de droit and the school of political science. His output as a novelist is con siderable, but he has paid more attention to style and to the de velopment of an agreeable descriptive talent than to character ization and psychology. His most important works are un doubtedly the novels dealing with provincial life, among which Mademoiselle Cloque (1899), La Becquee 0900, ), L'En f ant a la Balustrade 0903), La Jeune Fille bien elevee (1909) and its sequel, Madeleine Jeune Femme, may be specially noted. Two short psychological novels, Mon Amour (1908) and Le Meilleur Anti (19o9), both in the purest French tradition, also deserve mention. The miscellaneous collections of stories (La Marchande de Petits Pains pour les Canards, 1913, Le Bonheur d Cinq Sous, 1917) are of less interest ; but the fragments of a private diary, published after his death by Ch. Du Bos under the title of Feuilles Tombees, show critical and introspective gifts of the rarest kind. In his latter days Boylesve was markedly influenced by Marcel Proust, whose essential originality he had been among the first to recognize. He was elected to the Academie Frangaise in 1919. He died on Jan. 15, 1926.