Daru, Comte, a French administrator and littérateur, born at Montpellier; translated Horace when in prison during the Reign of Terror; served as administrator under Napoleon; on the return of the Bourbons devoted himself to letters, and wrote the “History of the Republic of Venice” (1767‒1829).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dartmoor * Darwin, Charles Robert