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Jean-Jacques Ampère
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Born August 12, 1800 • Lyon • France
Died March 27, 1864 (aged 63) • Pau • France
Notable Family Members father André-Marie Ampère
Subjects Of Study French language
Claude Favre, seigneur de Vaugelas
French grammarian
A.-H. Anquetil-Duperron
French scholar and linguist
Nanteuil, Robert: engraving of Gilles Ménage
Gilles Ménage
French scholar
James Darmesteter
French orientalist
Arsène Darmesteter
French scholar
Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889
Hippolyte Taine
French critic and historian
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
Fernand Braudel
French historian and educator
Barante, Amable-Guillaume-Prosper Brugière, baron de
Amable-Guillaume-Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante
French statesman, historian, and author
François Mignet
French historian
Bainville, 1936
Jacques Bainville
French historian
Claude-Carloman de Rulhière
French historian
Valentin Conrart
French scholar
Delille, detail of an engraving by Antoine Cardon after a painting by J.-L. Monnier
Jacques Delille
French writer
Louis-Georges-Oudard-Feudrix de Bréquigny
French historian
André Dacier
French scholar and translator
N.F.S. Grundtvig
N.F.S. Grundtvig
Danish bishop and poet
Pétrus Ky
Vietnamese statesman
Jan Frans Willems
Flemish poet and philologist
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian

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