ANCOURT, FLORENT CARTON D', an eminent French comic writer and actor, was born at Fontainbleau, on the 1st November 1661. He died on the 6th December 1726, being 65 years of age. The plays which he wrote were all, with one exception, comic. They have been frequently reprinted, and form, in the best edition, namely, that of 1760, a collection of 12 vols. 12mo.