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See also:BOISSIER, See also:MARIE See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS See also:ANTOINE GASTON (1823—1908) ,. See also:French classical See also:scholar, and secretary of the French See also:Academy, was See also:born at See also:Nimes on the 15th of See also:August 1823. The See also:Roman monuments of his native See also:town very See also:early attracted Gaston Boissier to the study of See also:ancient See also:history. He made See also:epigraphy his particular theme, and at the See also:age of twenty-three became a See also:professor of See also:rhetoric at See also:Angouleme, where he lived and worked for ten years without further ambition. A travelling inspector of the university, 'however, happened to hear him lecture, and Boissier was called to See also:Paris to be professor at the Lycee See also:Charlemagne. He began his See also:literary career by a thesis on the poet Attius (1857) and a study on the See also:life and See also:work of M. Terentius See also:Varro (1861). In 1861 he was made professor of Latin See also:oratory at the See also:College de See also:France, and he became an active contributor to the Revue See also:des deux monde's. In 1865 he published Ciceron et ses amis (Eng. trans. by A. D. See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones, 1897), which has enjoyed a success such as rarely falls to the See also:lot of a work of erudition. In studying the See also:manners of ancient See also:Rome, Boissier had learned to re-create its society and to reproduce its characteristics with exquisite vivacity.
In 1874 he published La See also:Religion romaine d'Auguste aux Antonin (2 vols.), in which he analysed the See also:great religious See also:movement of antiquity that preceded the See also:acceptance of See also:Christianity. In L'Opposition sous See also:les CCsars (1875) he See also:drew a remarkable picture of the See also:political decadence of Rome under the early successors of See also:Augustus. By this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Boissier had See also:drawn to himself the universal respect of scholars and men of letters, and on the See also:death of H. J. G. Patin, the author of Etudes sur les tragiques grecs, in 1876, he was elected a member of the French Academy, of which he was appointed perpetual secretary in 1895.
His later See also:works. include Promenades archeologiques: Rome et Pompei (188o; second See also:series, 1886); L'Afrique romaine, promenades archeologiques (190,); La Fin du paganisme (2 vols., 1891); Le Conjuration de Catilina (19o5); Tacite (1903, Eng, trans. by W. G. Hutchison, 1906). He was a representative example of the French See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for lucidity and elegance applied
with entire seriousness to weighty matters of literature. Though he devoted himself mainly to his great theme, the reconstruction of the elements of Roman society, he also wrote monographs on Madame de See also:Sevigne (1887) and See also:Saint-See also:Simon (1892). He died in See also:June 1go8.
End of Article: BOISSIER, MARIE LOUIS ANTOINE GASTON (1823—1908)
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