BEAUCHAMP, ALPHONSE DE, a French historian and 'publicist, b. at Monaco. 1767; d. in Paris, June 4, 1832. He received his education in Paris, and entered the Sardin ian military aervi•e. At the outbreak of the war with France, he refused to bear arms against his country, and obtained his discharge; but being suspected of treasonable design's, he was imprisoned for some months. After his 'liberation, lie returned to Paris, where he took part against Robespierre; and on the establishment of the direc tory, obtained a situation in the office of the minister of police, and had the surveil lance of the press. Here he commenced his Mears de la Vendie et des Clowns (3 vols., Par. 1806; 4th ed., 1820), for which Fondle supplied the materials. As this work dis pleased the emperor. B. was banished to Rheims, but was recalled in 1811, and again received a s"bordinate appointment (on condition that lie should publish nothing con cerning his political contemporaries), which he lost in 1814. Under the restoration, he
received a pension (1820), and wrote for the Honiteur, the Gazette de France, and the Biographie des .11»nntes Virants, edited by Michaud. The numerous historical writings of B. arc interesting; but bear the impress of party-spirit; but in his Hietoire du Breee (Par. 1815), and Histoire de la Conquele du Perou (Par. 1807), he found no opportunity of expressing his political partialities. Among his other works may be mentioned the Histoire de la Campagne de 1814-15 (9 vols., Par. 1818), the Ilistoire de la Rerolution du Rollout, directed against De In Rosa (Par. 1823), and I% de Louis XVIII. (Par. 1825). After the Julv revolution. he was employed on several legitimist journals; and the sup posititious ifelnoires of Fonde; (4 vols., Par. 18;28-29) have, with good reason, been ascribed to Beauchamp.