Gustave Fallot (17 November 1807 – 6 July 1836) was a French librarian and philologist.
Having obtained the diploma of palaeographer-archivist he was appointed sub-librarian of the
Institut de France
The (; ) is a French learned society, grouping five , including the Académie Française. It was established in 1795 at the direction of the National Convention. Located on the Quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the institute ...
. He committed himself relentlessly to scholarship; he completed a manuscript on the origins of the French language and notably proposed writing a genealogical history of the human race by languages and a study of the Slavonic languages and literatures.
1807 births
1836 deaths
19th-century French writers
French philologists
French librarians
Linguists
Writers from Montbéliard
École Nationale des Chartes alumni
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