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JEAN PHILIBERT DAMIRON (1794-1862)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 789 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN PHILIBERT See also:DAMIRON (1794-1862)  , See also:French philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Belleville . At nineteen he entered the normal school, where he studied under See also:Burnouf, See also:Villemain, and See also:Cousin . After teaching for several years in provincial towns, he came to See also:Paris, where he lectured on See also:philosophy in various institutions, and finally became See also:professor in the normal school, and titular professor at the See also:Sorbonne . In 1824 he took See also:part with P . F . See also:Dubois and Th . S . See also:Jouffroy in the See also:establishment of the Globe; and he was also a member of the See also:committee of the society which took for its See also:motto Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera . In 1833 he was appointed See also:chevalier of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, and in 1836 member of the See also:Academy of Moral Sciences . See also:Damiron died at Paris on the See also:lath of See also:January 1862 . The See also:chief See also:works of Damiron, of which the best are his accounts of French philosophers, are the following:—An edition of the Nouveaux melanges philosophiques de Jouffroy (1842), with a See also:notice of the author, in which Damiron softened and omitted several expressions used by Jouffroy, which were opposed to the See also:system of See also:education adopted by the Sorbonne, an See also:article which gave rise to a See also:bitter controversy, and to a See also:book by See also:Pierre See also:Leroux, De la See also:mutilation See also:des manuscrits de M . Jouffroy (1843); Essai sur l'histoire de la philosophie en See also:France au XIX° siecle (1828, 3rd ed .

1834); Essai sur l'histoire de la philosophie en France au X VII. siecle (1846); Memoires a servir pour l'histoire de la philosophic en France au X VIII. siecle (1858–1864); Cours de la philosophie; De la See also:

Providence (1849, 185o) . See A . See also:Franck, Moralistes et philosophes (1872) .

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