François Chamoux (4 April 1915 – 21 October 2007) was a French

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and archaeologist, a member of the

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.Where he was elected in 1981 to replace

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Biography

Chamoux attended lyceums in

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and

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and the

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in Paris and studied from 1934 at the

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and was Agrégé des lettres in classical languages in 1938. After that, he served in World War II (where he received the Silver Croix de Guerre) and in 1941 was severely wounded. Between 1943 and 1948 he was a student at the

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. Subsequently, he served as an assistant at the

University of Lille The University of Lille (, abbreviated as ULille, UDL or univ-lille) is a French public research university based in Lille, Hauts-de-France. It has its origins in the University of Douai (1559), and resulted from the merger of three universities ...

and the Sorbonne and teacher in a Parisian high school (''lycée''). In 1952 he was awarded his doctorate at the Sorbonne for his thesis dedicated to

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under the

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and the

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and was subsequently professor at Nancy and from 1960 to 1983 Professor of Greek literature and civilization at the Sorbonne. He also wrote overviews for Greek culture and art history and a biography of

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. He was both an excellent connoisseur of Greek art and ancient Greek poetry (especially

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s). As Homer connoisseur, he regularly attended the symposia in Chios. He did a lot of excavations in Greece (already in his time at the École francaise in Athens in the 1940s), among others in

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, and the colonies of Kyrene in Libya . From 1981 he was a member of the

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres). History ...

and from 1974 to 1987 he was editor of the ''Revue des Études grecques''.

Selected publications

* ''François Chamoux, Cyrène sous la monarchie des

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'' (« Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome », 177), Paris, De Boccard, 1953, 480 p., 28 pl. (thèse). * * * François Chamoux, ''Marc-Antoine, dernier prince de l'Orient'', Paris, Arthaud, 1986.

Biography

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Selected publications

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