Antoine Rivarol, a French author, born at Bagnols, Languedoc, June 26, 1753, died in Berlin, April 13, 1801. After preparing himself for the church he became a private tutor at Lyons. In 1777 he went to Paris, where he assumed after his mother the name of chevalier de Parcieux, and next that of Count Rivarol. He led a dissipated and adventurous life, and acquired celebrity as a wit, satirist, journalist, poet, and miscellaneous writer. He defended Louis XVI., who had given him a pension of 4,000 livres, and in 1792 fled to Brussels. He afterward went to London and Hamburg, and in 1800 to Berlin on a mission from the future Louis XVIII. His principal works are: Dis-cours sur l'universalité de la langue française (1784); Petit almanack de nos grands homines (1788); and Vie politique de Lafayette (1792). Chênedolle and Fayolle edited his works under the title Esprit de Rivarol (5 vols., 1808). - His wife, an English woman, wrote Notice sur la vie et la mort de M. de Rivarol (2 vols., Paris, 1802). See also Rivarol, sa vie et ses ouvrages, by M. de Lescure, accompanying a select edition of his works (1862).