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See also:ANTOINE LEONARD DE See also:CHEZY (1793-1832) , See also:French orientalist, was See also:born at Neuilly on the 15th of See also:January 1773 . His See also:father, See also:Antoine de See also:Chezy (1,718-1798), was an engineer who finally became director of the f See also:Cole See also:des Ponts et Chaussees . The son was intended for his father's profession; but in 1799 he obtained a See also:post in the See also:oriental See also:department of the See also:national library . About 1803 he began the study of See also:Sanskrit, though he possessed neither See also:grammar nor See also:dictionary, and by See also:great labour he obtained sufficient knowledge of the See also:language to be able to compose in it verses said to possess great elegance . He was the first See also:professor of Sanskrit appointed in the See also:College de See also:France (1815), a See also:chevalier of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, and a member of the See also:Academic des See also:Inscriptions . He died in 1832 . Among his See also:works were Medjouinet Leila (1807), from the See also:Persian; Yadjanadatta Badha (1814) and La See also:Reconnaissance de Sacountala (1830), from the Sanskrit; L'Anthologie trotique d'Amrou (1831), published under the See also:pseudonym d'Apudy . See the Me'moires of the Academic des Inscriptions (new See also:series, vol. xii.), where there is a See also:notice of Chezy by See also:Silvestre de Sacy . |
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