JACQUES

CLAUDE

See also:

• JACQUES CLAUDE DEMOGEOT (1808-1894)

DEMOGEOT (1808-1894)  , French man of letters, was born in Paris on the 5th of July 18o8 . He was professor of rhetoric at the lycee Saint Louis, and subsequently assistant professor at the Sorbonne . He write many detached papers on various literary subjects, and two reports on secondary education in England and Scotland in collaboration with H . Montucci . His reputation rests on his excellent Histoire de la litterature francaise depuis ses origines jusqu'd nos jours (1851), which has passed through many subsequent editions . He was also the author of a Tableau de la litterature francaise au XVII° siecle (1859), and of a work (3 vols., 188o-1883) on the influence of foreign literatures on the development of French literature . He died in Paris in 1894 .