Gustavc Lonis Adolphe Victor Charles Chaix Dest Ange, a French advocate, born in Rheims, April 11, 1800. An able defence of the political conspirators of 1820 and 1821 gained for him early popularity. He afterward distinguished himself in criminal trials, where he was considered as almost without a rival. Elected to the chamber of deputies by his native city in 1831, he took his seat among the moderate members of the opposition, and gave peculiar attention to the questions of copyright and individual liberty. One of the interesting trials in which he was engaged in 1832 was in reference to Victor Hugo's drama, Le roi s'amuse, when he was employed by the government to sustain the suppression of the drama, and in which he had the author himself and Odilon Barrot as adversaries. A member of the constituent assembly in 1848, he evinced great zeal in his opposition to the doctrines of the socialists, with a leaning to the Bonapartists. His sympathies were rewarded in 1857 by the place of attorney general to the imperial court of justice, in which capacity he appeared as prosecutor against the Italians implicated in the attempt of Jan. 14, 1858, upon Napoleon III. Soon afterward he was made councillor of state, and became a senator in 1862, and vice president of council Oct. 18, 1863.