French orientalist, born at Marseilles on the 20th of January 1794; died in Paris on the 2nd of September 1878. He studied Oriental languages under Silvestre de Sacy, and was appointed professor in the Institute in 1838. He published A Treatise on the Peculiarities of the Religion of the Indian Mussulman (1832); History of Hindu and Hindustani Literature (1837); Philosophic and Religious Poetry Among the Persians (1864); and Rhetoric and Prosody of the Languages of the Mussulman of the Orient (1873).
