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See also:JOSEPH See also:TOUSSAINT See also:REINAUD (1795-1867) , See also:French orientalist, was See also:born on the 4th of See also:December 1795 at Lambesc, Bouches du See also:Rhone . He came to See also:Paris in 1815, and became a See also:pupil of See also:Silvestre de Sacy . In' 1818-19 he was at See also:Rome as an attache to the French See also:minister, and studied under the See also:Maronites of the Propaganda, but gave See also:special See also:attention to See also:Mahommedan coins . In 1824 he entered the See also:department of See also:oriental See also:MSS. in the Royal Library at Paris, and in 1838, on the See also:death of De Sacy, he succeeded to his See also:chair in the school of living oriental See also:languages . In 1847 he became See also:president of the Societe Asiatique, and in 1858 See also:conservator of oriental MSS. in the Imperial Library . His first important See also:work was his classical description of the collections of the duc de Blacas (1828) . To See also:history he contributed an See also:essay on the Arab invasions of See also:France, See also:Savoy, See also:Piedmont and See also:Switzerland (1836), and various collections for the See also:period of the See also:crusades; he edited (1840) and in See also:part translated (1848) the See also:geography of See also:Abulfeda; to him too is due a useful edition of the very curious records of See also:early Arab intercourse with See also:China of which Eusebe See also:Renaudot had given but an imperfect See also:translation (Relation See also:des voyages, &c., 1845), and various other essays illustrating the See also:ancient and See also:medieval geography of the See also:East . See also:Reinaud died in Paris on the 14th of May 1867 . |
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