MARC ANTOINE GERARD, Sieur de St., a French poet, was born at Rouen, in Normandy, in 1594. In the epistle dedicatory to the third part of his works, he tells us that his father commanded a squadron of ships in the service of Elizabeth, queen of England, for 22 years, and was for three years a prisoner in the Black Tower at Constantinople. He mentions also that two brothers of his had been killed in an engagement with the Turks. His own life was spent in a continual succession of travels, which proved of no advantage to his fortune. The miscellaneous poems of this author are chiefly of the burlesque and the amorous kind; and though they abound in blemishes, yet his manner of reading them was so agreeable, that they were universally admired. Amand wrote also a very devout piece, entitled Stances à M. Corneille, sur son Imitation de Jesus Christ, which was printed at Paris in 1656. He was admitted a member of the French academy when it was first founded by Cardinal Richelieu, in the year 1633; and M. Pellisson informs us that in 1637, at his own desire, he was relieved from the obligation of making a speech, which each member was obliged to make in rotation, on condition that he should collect the burlesque terms, and compile the comic part of the dictionary which the academy had undertaken. For this task he was peculiarly adapted, his writings proving him to be extremely conversant in these terms, which he seems to have diligently collected from the marketplaces, and other resorts of the populace. He died in 1661.

Saint, a town in France in the department of Cher, capital of the arrondissement of the same name, about 40 miles W.N.W. of Moulins. It is situated on the river Cher. It was built in 1410, on the ruins of Orval. Its principal trade is in cattle, chestnuts, and leather. Population of the town, 7747; of the arrondissement, 103,723. Lat. 46. 40. N. Long. 2. 30. E.

Saint, a town of France, in the department du Nord, on the river Scarpe, about 7 miles N.W. of Valenciennes. It is much frequented for its mud baths, and its mineral and artesian wells. Large quantities of flax are grown in the vicinity. Pop. 9500. Lat. 50. 27. N. Long. 3. 26. E.