ANDRÉ HYACINTHE, a French litterateur, was born at Cavallon in 1726. He became tutor to the son of the Prince of Souise, 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 Épitres, which had some success during their day, but which, it is to be feared, are now mostly forgotten. He addressed also numerous Discours 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 Œuvres 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 Poulle 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.