SABATIER, ANDRÉ HYACINTHE, a French littérateur, was born at Cavillon in 1726. He became tutor to the son of the Prince of Soubise, and, after the suppression of the Jesuits, filled the chair of rhetoric at the college of Tournon. He quitted this place after a time and went to Paris, where he obtained a pension from the king. In 1789, he allowed himself to be carried away with the opinions of the day, and he accepted the chair of belles-lettres at the central college of Var. He was subsequently nominated to the central school of Carpentras; but being unable to hold this situation from the violence of the revolution, he retired with his family to Avignon, where he died on the 14th August 1806, aged eighty years.
Sabatier wrote a great number of Odes and Epistles, which had some success during their day, but which, it is to be feared, are now mostly forgotten. He addressed also numerous Discourses to the French people, characterized by judicious observations and useful precepts, but which are now permitted to enjoy the dignified retirement of the
Odes. The most complete edition of his Oeuvres is that of Avignon, 2 vols. 1779. In the first volume, which is chiefly composed of verse, we may mention an Épitre à l'abbé Poullé sur la méthode de diviser les discours, and L'Enthousiasme, an ode, of which many of the strophes would not be considered unworthy of J. B. Rousseau. The second volume is composed of academical discourses.