Pierre Loison

Pierre Loison, a French sculptor, born at Mer, Loir-et-Cher, in 1821. He studied under David d'Angers, and exhibited his first works in 1845. In 1853 he exhibited his statues of "Hero" and "Spring," and in 1855 a " Nymph " which was purchased by government, as was subsequently his " Pandora." Among his other works are statues of "Penelope," "Sappho," and a " Maid of Honor of the Court of Francis I.," the last exhibited in 18G9. He has also executed various works for the new Louvre, the Tuileries, and for churches.

Pierre Louis Jean Casimir Blacas

Pierre Louis Jean Casimir Blacas, duke de, a French statesman, born at Aulps, Jan. 12, 1771, died at Gorz, Nov. 17, 1839. At the commencement of the revolution he emigrated, but returned to France with Louis XVIII., entered his cabinet, and became one of the intimate advisers of the Bourbons. Sent to Rome as ambassador, Blacas negotiated the concordat of 1817. He was afterward ambassador at Naples. On the fall of the Bourbons in 1830 Blacas returned to exile and offered Charles X. his fortune, which the dethroned king would not accept.

Pierre Marie Francois De Sales Baillot

Pierre Marie Francois de Sales Baillot, a French violinist, born at Passy, near Paris, Oct. 1, 1771, died in Paris, Sept. 15, 1842. He was a professor in the conservatoire for many years, and wrote several treatises and addresses on musical subjects. He travelled in Russia, Belgium, Holland, and England, and was considered without a rival in the severely classical style.

Pierre Marie Sebastien Catineai-Laroche

Pierre Marie Sebastien Catineai-Laroche, a French lexicographer, born at Saint-Brieuc, March 25, 1772, died May 22, 1828. He studied at Poitiers, and in 1791 emigrated to St. Domingo, where, he published at Port-au-Prince a journal, L'ami de lapaix et tie l'union. He gave such offence to the colonists by his anti-slavery sentiments that he was prosecuted, and would have been sentenced to death by the local tribunals but for the interference of the agent of the home government. He went to Cape Haytien (then called Cap Francais), where he alone of 17 of his countrymen was saved from the massacre which broke out in that city. He then visited the United States and England, and on his return to Paris in 1797 established a printing office and composed several dictionaries. His printing office having been destroyed by fire, the government employed him, and in 1819 he was sent to study the climate and resources of Guiana. His notes on that country appeared in 1822.

Pierre Martial Cibot

Pierre Martial Cibot, a French Jesuit missionary in China, horn at Limoges in 1727, died in Peking, Aug. 8, 1780. He was educated in Paris, and distinguished himself by his tine scholarship, He set out for China in 1758. First admitted into the household of the emperor as a gardener, his learning and talent soon gained for him the position of court mathematician. He conceived the project of explaining the Old Testament through a connection between the history of the Jews and Chinese, and wrote a long commentary on the book of Esther in pursuance of that object. Extracts from this, and a large number of his dissertations, are contained, with those of Amiot, in the Memoires concernant les Chinois.