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Étienne Fourmont
Étienne Fourmont (23 June 1683 – 8 December 1745) was a French scholar and Orientalist who served as professor of Arabic at the Collège de France and published grammars on the Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese languages. Although Fourmont is remembered as a pioneering sinologist who did careful and influential work on the nature of Chinese characters, his legacy is significantly tarnished by the fact that he earned his early reputation by stealing the work of Arcadius Huang, whom he had helped catalog the royal sinological collection, and that he frequently plagiarized the works of other scholars. Life and career Born at Herblay near Argenteuil, he studied at the Collège Mazarin in Paris and afterwards in the Collège Montaigu where his attention was attracted to Oriental languages. Shortly after leaving the college he published a ''Traduction du commentaire du Rabbin Abraham A ben Esra sur l'Ecclésiaste''. In 1711 Louis XIV appointed Fourmont to assist Arcadius H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herblay
Herblay-sur-Seine (, "Herblay-on-Seine"; before 2018: Herblay) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in its northwestern outer suburbs, on the departmental border with Yvelines. It is twinned with Yeovil, England. Geography Climate Herblay-sur-Seine has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfb''). The average annual temperature in Herblay-sur-Seine is . The average annual rainfall is with October as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in December, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Herblay-sur-Seine was on 6 August 2003; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 7 January 2009. Demographics Transport Herblay-sur-Seine is served by Herblay station on the Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare suburban rail line. Education Schools in Herblay-sur-Seine: * Six primary school : Jean-Louis Etienne, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |