Henri Alphonse Esquiros, a French author and politician, born in Paris in 1814. He published some poetry in 1834, and subsequently wrote in the socialist interest, and in 1840 was imprisoned for eight months on account of his heterodox description of Christ in L' evangile du peuple. He was an ultra-radical member of the legislative assembly from 1849 till Dec. 2, 1851, when he was banished, and went to Holland, and afterward to England. Under the amnesty of 1869 he returned to France, and was elected to the legislative body. He was prefect of the department of Bouches-du-Rh6ne from September to November, 1870, and in February, 1871, was elected to the national assembly, of which he was still a member in 1873. Among his works, besides several novels, are : Les vierges martyres, Les merges folles, and Les merges sages (1841-'2); Histoire des Montagnards (2 vols., 1847); Les fastes populaires (4 vols., 1851-'3); La Neer-lande et la vie hollandaise (2 vols., 1859; English translation, "The Dutch at Home," 1861); and L'Angleterre et la vie anglaise (5 vols., 1869-'70; English translation by L. Wraxall, 1861-'8). - His wife, Adele, has written several works, and assisted her husband in Histoire des amants celebres de l'antiquite.