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PIERRE MARIE AUGUSTIN FILON (1841– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 346 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE See also:MARIE AUGUSTIN See also:FILON (1841– )  , See also:French See also:man of letters, son of the historian See also:Charles Auguste See also:Desire See also:Filon (1800-1875), was See also:born in See also:Paris in 1841 . His See also:father became See also:professor of See also:history at See also:Douai, and eventually " inspecteur d'academie " in Paris; his See also:principal See also:works were Histoire comparee de See also:France et de l'Angleterre (1832), Histoire de l'See also:Europe au X VP siecle (1838), La Diplomatie francaise sous See also:Louis X V (1843), Histoire de l'Italie meridionale (1849), Histoire du senat romain (185o), Histoire de la democratic athenienne (18J4) . Educated at the Ecole normale, Augustin Filon was appointed See also:tutor to the See also:prince imperial and accompanied him to See also:England, where he remained for some years . He is the author of See also:Guy Patin, sa See also:vie, sa correspondance (1862); Nos grands-peres (1887); Prosper See also:Merimee (1894); Sous la tyrannie (1900) . On See also:English subjects he has written chiefly under the See also:pseudonym of See also:Pierre Sandrie, See also:Les Mariages de Londres (1875); Histoire de la litterature anglaise (1883); Le See also:Theatre anglais (1896), and La See also:Caricature en Angleterre (1902) .

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