LECONTE DE LISLE, Charles Marie Rene, sharl mare re-ni le Vint de re, French poet: b. Saint Paul, Ile de Bourbon (now Re union), 23 Oct. 1818; d. Louveciennes, 17 July 1894. When a young man he went to. France, studied law at Rennes and after a course of travel settled in Paris. His progress was slow, but gradually he gathered a group of young writers, and expanded his own work, whereby he won recognition as leader of the modern Parnassian school of poetry. It was some years before he found a publisher for 'Poetnes an tiques' (1852), his first volume of real signifi cance, but with 'Poemes barbares' (1862) he gained an academic prize of 10,000 francs. In 1884 he published 'Poemes tragiques,' and in 1895 appeared Werniers poemes,) a posthumous volume containing also critiques on his pre cursors in lyric poetry. His hand gave its im press to
Greek he wrote the dramas 'Les Erinnyes' (1872) and (L'Apollonide,> based on the 'Ion' of Euripides. His poetry embodies a philosophy of human life in which he sought to combine art with scientific principles and to weave in one poetic fabric the mythical past with ideal visions yet to he realized by the race. In 1887 he was elected a member of the Academy.
LECOT, Victor Lucien Sulpice, CARDINAL, French Roman Catholic clergyman: b. Montescourt, 8 Jan. 1831; d. Chamberv. 19 Dec. 1908. He was educated at the Petit Serninaire at Compiegne and at the Grand Seminaire at Beauvais. He served as chap lain in the French army in the Franco-Prus sian War and in 1886 was consecrated bishop of Dijon. He became archbishop of Bor deaux in 1890 and cardinal priest of Santa Pudenziana in 1893. He protested against the Church Separation Law of 1901, but endeav ored to persuade the Pope to sanction a com promise.