Peter Carlet de, a French writer in the dramatic way and in romance, was born of a good family at Paris in 1688. A fine understanding, well improved by education, distinguished him early. His first object was the theatre, where he met with the highest success in comic productions; and these, with the merit of his other works, procured him a place in the French academy. The great characteristic of both his comedies and romances was, to convey an useful moral under the veil of wit and sentiment: "My only object (says he) is to make men more just and more humane;" and he was as amiable in his life and conversation as he was in his writings. He died at Paris in 1763, aged 75. His works consist of, 1. Pièces de Theatre, 4 vols. 12mo. 2. Homore travesti, 12mo; which is not supposed to have done much honour to his taste. 3. Le Spectateur François, 2 vols. 12mo. 4. Le Philosophe Indégent, 12mo. 5. Vie de Marianne, 2 vols. 12mo; one of the best romances in the French language. 6. L.: Paysan Parvenu, 12mo. 7. Pharsamon; inferior to the former.