VOGUE, veYgn'tt', CHARLES JEAN MELcntou, Marquis de (1329—). A French archxologist and historian. He was horn in Paris and was pri vately educated. In 1853-54 and in 1861 and 1862 he traveled widely in the Orient. In 1868 lie was elected a member of the Acad6mie des inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. In 1871 he was appointed by Thiers Ambassador to Turkey, and in 1875 was transferred to Aus tria, hut after the retirement of MaeMahon in 1879 he left the diplomatic service. In 1901 he was elected it member of the French Academy. His chief works in archaeology arc: Les eglises de la Terre Sainte (1860) ; Melanges d'areheologie orientate (1869) ; L'arellitecture eivile et religiense du ler au Herne slide dans la Syrie rentrale (1865-77) ; in history, Le mare chat de (1SSS), Les viemoircs de pillars (ed. 1884-92), and Le due de Bourgogne et lc due de Beaucilliers (1900).
VOGtfE, EUGENE :MARIE 'MELCHIOR, Vicomte de (1848—). A French critic and historian, horn at Nice, cousin of the preceding. During
the Franco-Prussian war he served as a volunteer and w•as wounded at Sedan. After 1871 he was attache to the French embassies at Constantinople, Cairo, and Saint Petersburg, re spectively. At the latter Court he passed seven years, but in 1882 gave up the diplomatic service to devote himself to literature. In 1888 he was made a member of the French Academy. It was through Vicomte dc that Russian novelists first. became widely known in France and afterwards throughout the English-speaking world. 11 is more important publications include: Syrie, Palestine, moral Athos (1876) ; Histoires orientates (1879) ; Le roman russe (1886) ; Regards historiques et litteraires (1892) ; Heurcs crhistoire (1.893) ; Ctrurs rus•ses (1894) ; Le rappel des ombres (1900) ; Pages d'histoire (1902) ; and the novel Les morts qui patent (1899). Consult Hod, "Le Vicomte E. Si. de in Les idees morales du temps present (Paris, 1891).