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Les Langues perdues de la Perse et de l'Assyrie (2 vols., 1885-1886); Les Pierres gravees de la Haute-Asie (2 vols., 1883-1886). He also collaborated with See also:

JULIUS

Julius See also:

OPPERT, JULIUS (1825-19o5)

Oppert. He was admitted to the See also:

Academy of Inscriptions in 1887, and died in See also:

Paris on the 30th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1899. His daughter DELPHINE (b. 185o) received a See also:

PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize from the Academy for her Les Parsis, histoire des communautes zoroastriennes de l'Inde (1898), and was sent in 1900-1901 to See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

India on a scientific See also:

MISSION

mission, of which she published a See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report in 1903. M$NARD, See also:

LOUIS See also:

NICOLAS (1822-1901), French See also:

man of letters, was born in Paris on the 19th of See also:

OCTOBER

October 1822. His versatile See also:

GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius occupied itself in turn with See also:

chemistry, See also:

POETRY

poetry, See also:

PAINTING

painting and See also:

HISTORY

history. In 1843 he published, under the See also:

PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym of L. de Senneville, a See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of Promethee delivre. Turning to chemistry, he discovered See also:

COLLODION (from the Gr. &M a' , glue)

collodion in 1846, but its value was not recognized at the See also:

time; and its application later to See also:

surgery and See also:

photography brought him no See also:

ADVANTAGE

advantage.

Louis Menard was a socialist, always in advance of the reform movements of his time. After 1848 he was condemned to imprisonment for his See also:

PROLOGUE (from Gr. 7rpo, before, and Myer, a word)

Prologue d'une revolution. He escaped to See also:

LONDON

London, returning to Paris only in 1852. Until r86o he occupied himself with classical studies, the fruits of which are to be seen in his Fames (1855), Polytheisme hellenique (1863), and two See also:

ACADEMIC

academic theses, De sacra poesi graecorum and La Morale avant les philosophes (186o). The next ten years Menard spent chiefly among the See also:

BARBIZON

Barbizon artists, and he exhibited several pictures. He was in London at the time of the See also:

Commune, and defended it with his See also:

PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen. In 1887 he became See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor at the Ecole des Arts decoratifs, and in 1895 professor of universal history at the Hotel de Ville in Paris. His Reveries d'un See also:

PAL, KRISTO DAS (1839–1884)

pal"en mystique (1876), which contained sonnets, philosophical dialogues and some stories, was followed in 1896 by Fames et reveries d'un pa en mystique. Menard died in Paris on the 12th of See also:

FEBRUARY

February Ig01. His works include: Histoire des anciens peuples de l'Orient (1882); Histoire des Israelites d'aprbs l'exegbse biblique (1883), and Histoire des Grecs (1884–1886). There is an appreciation of Menard in the opening See also:

CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter of See also:

Maurice Barres's Voyage de Sparte.

End of Article: MENANT, JOACHIM (1820—1899)

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