Pierre-Antoine Guéroult
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Pierre-Remy-Antoine-Guillaume Guéroult, called "" (Young Guéroult), (16 January 1749,
Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...
14 December 1816) was an 18th–19th-century French scholar. The year he died he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by King Louis XVIII of France.


Works

*1790: ''Origine de la république une et indivisible'', drama which he offered in homage to the National Constituent Assembly. *1802: ''Dictionnaire de la France monarchique, ou la France telle qu’elle était en janvier 1789'' ; in-8° ; *1783–1789: t.VIII de la traduction des œuvres de Cicero (with his brother Guéroult aîné). This translation was directed by Jean-Marie-Bernard Clément and Jean-Nicolas Démeunier, 8 vol. in-12, ou 3 vol. 4°. The volume by the Guéroult brothers includes the ''Harangue sur les réponses des aruspices'', that ''pour Sextus'', the ''Plaidoyers pour Plancius et pour Celius'', and the ''Invective contre Vatinius'' ; *1794: ''Constitution des Spartiates, des Athéniens et des Romains'', in-8°. He left manuscripts of the translation of several ''Discours'' by Cicero and one opera, ''Étéocle et Polynice'', non presented.


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Théodore-Éloi Lebreton Théodore-Éloi Lebreton (1 December 1803 – 12 December 1883) was a 19th-century autodidact French poet, chansonnier and bibliographer. Biography Born from a day laborer and a washerwoman, Lebreton entered at age seven in an indienne factor ...
, ''Biographie normande'', t. 2, Rouen, Le Brument, 1858, p. 185-6.


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