DESIRE RAOUL ROCHETTE (1790-1854)  , French archaeologist, was born on the 9th of March 1790 at St Amand in the department of Cher, and received his education at Bourges . He was made professor of history in the College de Louis-le-Grand at Paris (1813) and in the Sorbonne (1817) . His Histoire critique de l'etablissement des colonies grecques (4 vols., 1815) is now out of date . He was superintendent of antiquities in the Bibliotheque at Paris (1819-48), and professor ofarchaeology at the Bibliotheque (from 1826), a result of which may be seen in his Cours d'archeologie (1828) . In 1829 appeared his Monuments inedits, a work of great value at the time . Still valuable are his Peintures inedites (1836) and his Peintures de Pompei (1844) . He contributed to the Annali of the Roman Institute, the Journal des savants and the Academie des inscriptions . At his death on the 3rd of July 1854 Raoul Rochette was perpetual secretary of the Academy of Fine Arts and a corresponding member of most of the learned societies in Europe .