Louis Amedee Eugene Achard, a French novelist, born at Marseilles in April, 1814. The first part of his life was employed in commerce and provincial administration, and he afterward became a journalist in Paris. In 1846 he accompanied the duke of Montpensier to Spain as a reporter. In 1847 he published Belle-Rose, a successful novel (5 vols. 8vo.), since which he has produced many others, besides a number of plays.