Joseph-Victor Leclerc (1789, Paris - 1865) was a French scholar. He was professor of

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at the lycée Charlemagne, then maître de conferences (equivalent to docent) at the École normale, then professor of Latin speech (''éloquence latine'') at the

Faculté des lettres de Paris The faculté des lettres de Paris was a French educational institution based at the Sorbonne. It was set up by the imperial decree regarding the University of France on 17 March 1808. It partly succeeded the arts faculty of the former University o ...

, then dean of that Faculté (1832–65) and finally a member of the Institut de France ( Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1834). He produced an annotated edition of the works of

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in 1826, translated Cicero in thirty volumes (1821–25). He also wrote ''les Journaux chez les Romains'' (1838), ''Discours sur l’état des lettres en France au XIVe s.'' (1865) and several articles for ''Histoire littéraire de la France'', published by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

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