Napoléon Antoine Aimé Péretié, commonly Aimé Péretié, (5 March 1808,
Marseille
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– 8 April 1882,
Beirut
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), was a French diplomat in the Levant and as a collector of oriental antiquities.
Diplomatic career
From 1829 to 1834, he worked for the French consulate in Larnaca as a dragoman and chancellor.
In 1839, he was nominated “drogman sans residence fixe”, and by December 1850 he was chancellor of the French consulate general in Beirut. For a short period around 1853 he was French vice consul in Tripoli (Lebanon), and by 1855 was again chancellor of the French consulate general in Beirut.
In 1864, he was promoted vice consul of France in Beirut.
Antiquities
In 1855, he donated a collection of medieval coins to the
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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. In the same year he was involved in the discovery of the
Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II. In 1869, he was involved in the discovery of the
Yehawmilk Stele.
He travelled to Cyprus for similar purposes. In 1850, he bought and sold several important objects including the
Idalion Tablet.
Family
His son Alfred became the French consul in Baghdad.
References
External links
Items discovered by Aimé Péretié at the Louvre
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19th-century French diplomats
French orientalists
Diplomats from Marseille
1808 births
1882 deaths