The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ces in rapid succession, which admirably suit the taste of ,hisplay-going audiences. Subjoined is a list of hisother works, with the dates of their first representa-tion: Les Gens Nerveux{iS>s^); Les PattesdeMouche(i860); Nos Intimes, one oi his most brilliant suc-cesses (1861); La Perle Noire {\%62); Les DiablesNoirs (1863); Don Quichotte{i%()\); Les Vieux Gar-fons (1865); Maison Neuve (1866); Seraphtne, origi-nally entitled La Devote (1868); Patrie {lUg), anhistorical play; Fernande (1870); Rabagas (1S
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ces in rapid succession, which admirably suit the taste of ,hisplay-going audiences. Subjoined is a list of hisother works, with the dates of their first representa-tion: Les Gens Nerveux{iS>s^); Les PattesdeMouche(i860); Nos Intimes, one oi his most brilliant suc-cesses (1861); La Perle Noire {\%62); Les DiablesNoirs (1863); Don Quichotte{i%()\); Les Vieux Gar-fons (1865); Maison Neuve (1866); Seraphtne, origi-nally entitled La Devote (1868); Patrie {lUg), anhistorical play; Fernande (1870); Rabagas (1S72),a play which was supposed to have reference to ; Les Merveilleuses (1873); LOncle Sam(1873), a satire on American society; La Maine(1874), a tragedy which was not successful; Ferreol(1875); Dora (1877), a comedy in five acts; andLes Bourgeois de Pontarsy (1878); Daniel Rochat(1880), a five-act comedy; Odette (1881), a play infour acts; Divorfons (1881), a comedy in three acts;Fedora, Tlieodora and La Tosca (1887), the lastthree being written for Madame Sarah Bernhardt,. VICTORIEN SARDOU. 6i6 SARGENT—SARNIA and produced with great success in the UnitedStates by Fanny Davenport. His Thcnnidor, basedon the French Revolution, was produced in 1891,but prohibited by the government. His Gismondawas produced by Bernhardt, at Paris, in 1894. Hewas decorated with the Legion of Honor in 1863,and elected a member of the French Academy inJune, 1877. Sardous comedies are rapid in actionand full of wittj dialogue, while they are for themost part improbable, and are thin and superficialin their emotional elements. He is amusing in hishits at his contemporary men of letters. His Womanof Silence, an improbable blackmailing story, wasacted in London in 1894, and Madame Sans-Gine,turning on the early love of Marshal Lefebre, inNew York, in 1895. SARGENT, Aaron Augustus, an Americanlawyer and public man; born in Newburyport,Massachusetts, Sept. 28, 1827. He was succes-sively a print
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