Francois Guillaume Jean Stanislas Andrieux, a French author, born in Strasburg, May 6, 1759, died in Paris, May 10, 1833. He studied law, and distinguished himself as the advocate of the Abbe Mulot in the affair of the diamond necklace. He welcomed the revolution with enthusiasm, but on the fall of the Girondists was obliged to hide himself. On May 23, 1794, he returned to Paris and began to study English literature, and several of his pieces from this time show traces of his familiarity with Swift, Addison, and Steele. In 1795 he was made judue of the court of cassation, was admitted into the newly organized national institute, and was awarded a pension of 2,000 francs by the convention. In April, 1798, he was chosen by the moderate party one of their candidates to the council of 500. After the 18th Brumaire he was appointed by the consulate a member, and afterward secretary and president of the tribunate; but the first consul removed him in September, 1802. After having declined the office of censor, offered to him by Fouche, with 8,000 francs salary, he accepted that of librarian to Joseph Bonaparte, with 6,000 francs, a post which he held for ten years. In 1802 he wrote for the theatre Lou-vois, of which his friend Picard was the director, Helvetius, on la vengeance d' un sage.

After the death of this philosopher, he was one of the habitues of the famous salon of Madame Helvetius at Auteuil. In 1814 he was elevated to the professorship of French literature in the college of France. The romantic school of literature was the object of his unsparing attacks. He was one of the founders of the Decades plilosophiques et litteraires (1794-1807). Among his more remarkable contributions to the French stage are Les Etourdis, performed with brilliant success in 1787; Le tresor (1804); Moliere arec ses amis (1804); La comedienne (1816); and his tragedy of Brutus (1830). His complete works were published in 4 vols., 1817-23, and in 6 vols., 1828.