succeeded for some time in preventing him from becoming a member of the Institute. He was finally elected a member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques on 11 December 1897 in place of the duc d'Aumale, of whose life he wrote an account (vol. xxii., 2nd series, of the Mémoires of this academy). His many interests ended by wearing out even his robust constitution, and he died at Paris in 1905. References 1842 births 1905 deaths Writers from Besançon École Normale Supérieure alumni 19th-century French historians Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Members of the Ligue de la patrie française Senators of Doubs French male non-fiction writers Foreign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts