[Marcel Auguste]. French archæologist, born on the 3rd of August 1844; distinguished for his learned and fruitful researches in the antiquities of Persia. His magnificent works, Ancient Art of Persia (1884–89) and Acropolis of Susa (1890), are well known. His wife, also an enthusiastic archæologist, published Persia, Susiana and Chaldæa (1866) and At Susa (1887).
