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VAPEREAU, LOUIS GUSTAVE (1819–1906)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 897 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VAPEREAU, See also:LOUIS GUSTAVE (1819–1906) , See also:French See also:man of letters and lexicographer, was See also:born at See also:Orleans on the 4th of See also:April 1819. Educated at the Ecole Normale he became a teacher of See also:philosophy, and was entrusted by See also:Victor See also:Cousin with the preparation of his studies on the Pensees of See also:Pascal. Under the See also:empire his republican principles cost him his position, and Vapereau studied for the See also:bar. He practised, however, little or not at all, and after 187o he was appointed See also:prefect of See also:Cantal (187o) and of See also:Tarn et See also:Garonne (1871–73). From 1877 to 1888 he was inspector-See also:general of public instruction. He was the author of some excellent See also:editions of the See also:classics, and of See also:works on See also:political and social questions, but he is famous for his valuable Dictionnaire universel See also:des contemporains (1858; 6th ed., 1893), brought up to date in 1895 by a supplementary See also:volume. He also See also:drew up a Dictionnaire universel des litterateurs (1876). At the See also:time of his See also:death at Norsang-sur-Orge in 1906, he had been for twenty-six years a See also:regular contributor to L'See also:Illustration, some of his notes written for this See also:journal being collected in 1896 as L'Homme et la See also:vie.

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