ARAGO, JACQUES ETIENNE Vicrou, brother of the great savant, was born in 1790. In 1817, lie accompanied the expedition, under Freycinet, in a voyage round the world. Afterwards, we find him engaged, first at Bordeaux, and then at Toulouse, in several i branches of light literature, industriously writing, in company with other scribes, a mul titude of vaudevilles, besides publishing several poems and romances. In the year 1835, he undertook the management of the theater at Rouen; but having become afflicted with blindness, he was compelled to resign this post In 1837_ To his early voyage round the world we owe two very pleasant books of travel: Pronzenadd autour du iron& (Paris, 1838), Souvenir d'un aveugleToyage autour du Monde (Paris, 1838). In 1849, though deprived of sight, he formed a company of speculators; placed himself at the head of it, and departed for California, to search for gold on a large scale. His companions muti nied and left him, deserted and disappointed, at Valparaiso. On his return, he published
his painful experiences, under the title, Voyage d'un aveugle en Californie et dans let Regions aura/ res (Paris, 1851). He d. Jan. 1, 1855.—A., ETIENNE, another brother of the astronomer, was b. 1802, and is well known in France as a popular feuilletonist iu the Si?cle, and other journals. He held an appointment under the provisional govern ment, as director-general of the post-office, in which he displayed great vigor, prompti tude, and sense, and achieved several postal reforms; was elected member of the national assembly; was compromised by the insurrection in June, and sentenced to exile for life. In 1859, he returned to France; and at the time of the Franco-Prussian war was mayor of Paris—an office which he resigned in Nov. 1870.—A. JEAN, another of the brothers A., b. 1789, d. 1830, was general of the republican army in Mexico, and wrote, in Spanish, a history of Mexico.