Joseph Fievee, a French politician and author, born in Paris, April 8, 1767, died there, May 7, 1839. He lost his father at an early age, and was apprenticed in a printing office, devoting himself also to literature and politics. He embraced the principles of the revolution in 1789, and assisted Condorcet and Millin in editing the Chroniqve de Paris. Disgusted with the excesses of the terrorists, to whose downfall he contributed in 1794, he entered in 1795 upon a course of royalist partisanship, and was proscribed by the revolutionists, imprisoned in 1799, and restored to liberty on the 18th Brumaire. In 1802 he was sent by Napoleon upon a delicate mission to England, and on his return published a volume of letters concerning that country. In 1810 he was sent to Hamburg to examine the operations of certain agents, and under the first restoration was prefect of the department of Nievre, from which post he was dismissed by Napoleon on his return from Elba. He afterward took part in editing several royalist journals, and especially contributed by his skill in polemics to the power of the Journal des Debats. He wrote several romances, remarkable for grace and simplicity, published a pamphlet in 1795, Sur la necessite (Tune religion, which first gave him a leading position in the religious and monarchical party, and left a great number of political treatises.