Allainval, The Abbe Leonor-Jean-Christine Soulas D'

, was born at Chartres, and died at Paris the 2d of May, 1753. He gave to the French theatre several comedies that met with tolerable success; and to the Italian theatre, “TEmbarras des Richesses,” which was far better received; the “Tour de Carnaval,” and some other pieces. His “Ecole des Bourgeois,” abounds in that true comic humour which characterises the plays of Moliere. There are likewise of his 1. “Les Bigarrures Calotines.” 2. “Lettres à Milord,” concerning the Baron and the | Demoiselle le Couvreur.“3.” Anecdotes of Russia, under Peter I.“1745, 12mo. 4.” Connoissauce de la Mythologie," 1762, 12mo. This last work is methodical and well digested; but he was only the editor of it. It was written by a Jesuit, who gave it to M. Boudot. Allainval lived in great poverty, sleeping generally in hackney chairs, or coaches in the streets, and died equally poor, in the hotel de Dieu, to which he was carried when struck with the palsy. ¹