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Jacques Claude Demogeot
Jacques Claude Demogeot (5 July 1808 - 1894) was a French man of letters.
He was born in Paris. He was professor of rhetoric at the lycee Saint Louis , and subsequently assistant professor at the Sorbonne. He wrote many detached papers on various literary subjects, and two reports on secondary education in England and Scotland in collaboration with H. Montucci . His reputation rests on his excellent Histoire de la litterature francaise depuis ses origines jusqud nor jours (1851), which has passed through many subsequent editions. He was also the author of a Tableau de la litterature francaise au XVII sicle (1859), and of a work (3 vols., 1880-1883) on the influence of foreign literatures on the development of French literature. He died in Paris in 1894.
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