French orientalist, born in Vimy, France, on the 31st of August 1838; died in Paris on the 20th of August 1888; was professor of Sanskrit at the Sorbonne; published his first work in 1872, a translation of the gnomic poem, Le Bhâminivilâsa; in 1883 he completed the third volume of The Vedic Religion, after the Hymns of the Rig-Veda; at the time of his death he was at work upon a lexicon for the Rig-Veda.
