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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 674 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEROUX D'See also:

AGINCOURT, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:LOUIS See also:GEORGE (1730–1814), See also:French archaeologist and historian, was See also:born at See also:Beauvais on the 5th of See also:April 1730. He belonged to a See also:good See also:family, and in his youth served as an officer in a See also:regiment of See also:cavalry. Finding it necessary to quit the See also:army in See also:order to take See also:charge of his younger See also:brothers who had been See also:left orphans, he was appointed a See also:farmer-See also:general by Louis XV. In 1777 he visited See also:England, See also:Germany and See also:Holland; and in the following See also:year he travelled through See also:Italy,,with the view of exploring thoroughly the remains of See also:ancient See also:art. He afterwards settled at See also:Rome, and devoted himself to preparing the results of his researches for publication. He died on the 24th of See also:September 1814, leaving the See also:work, which was being issued in parts, unfinished; but it was carried on by M. Gence, and published See also:complete under the See also:title L'Histoire de l'arl See also:par See also:les monuments, depuis sa decadence au quairieme siecle jusqu'd son renouvellement au seizieme (6 vols. fol. with 325 plates, See also:Paris, 1823). An See also:English See also:translation by See also:Owen See also:Jones was published in 1847. In the year of his See also:death Seroux d'Agincourt published in Paris a Recueil de fragments de See also:sculpture See also:antique, en terre cuite (I vol. 4to).

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