Claude Sosthène Grasset d'Orcet

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Claude Sosthène Grasset d'Orcet
Born(1828-06-06)6 June 1828
Archaeologist
, writer, journalist

Claude Sosthene Grasset d'Orcet (6 June 1828 at

esoteric
and founder of the study of French mythology.

Life

Claude Sosthene Grasset was the son of Pierre-Joseph Grasset, the Mayor of

Elias Robert, who prompted him to travel to Greece, then throughout the Middle East. While in Cyprus[1] he married Clémence-Félicie Lafon, daughter of a former medical officer based in Nicosia.[2]

Between 1848 and 1851 he frequented the

Louis Felicien de Saulcy (1807–1880). This was the start of a long relationship between the two men.[citation needed
]

He moved to Cyprus for several years, where he began excavations and discovered many items of which some were carried back to France in 1859 by de Saulcy on his return from the Holy Land, and form the basis of the Cypriot Archaeology collection in the

Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé and the architect Edmond Duthoit in 1862–1864.[citation needed
]

Before 1870, Grasset d'Orcet worked as a journalist for the newspapers La Cloche and Le Figaro, and was a reporter for the Havas agency during the Paris Commune. He worked for 27 years at the La Revue britannique, in which he published 218 articles, the first in 1873 on "Alcoholism in literature", and made numerous translations.[citation needed]

Bibliography

  • Archéologie mystérieuse (Mysterious Archaeology) (in French). Paris.
  • Œuvres décryptées (Decrypted Works) (in French). Paris.
  • Souvenirs (Memories) (in French). Paris.
  • Histoire du cheval à travers les âges (History of the horse through the ages) (in French). Paris.
  • Histoire secrète de l'Europe (Secret History of Europe) (in French). Paris.
  • Chroniques et Récits d'Auvergne {Chronicles and Tales of Auvergne} (in French). Paris.
  • La Croix de verre, Siège de Lyon (Glass Cross, Siege of Lyon) (in French). Paris.
  • Matériaux cryptographiques (Cryptographic materials) (in French). Éditions les Trois R. 1983.
  • Hiéroglyphie dans l'Art Antique (Hieroglyphs in Ancient Art), Sosthène Grasset et la découverte de l'archéologie chypriote (Sosthene Grasset and the discovery of Cypriot Archaeology) (in French). Éditions les Trois R. 2002. .

Further reading

Sources

  • Notice nécrologique sur Grasset d'Orcet, 1900, Revue Britannique.
  • Grasset d'Orcet, docteur en grimoires, by Valérie Gentil, 1993, mémoire de maîtrise, Université de Bordeaux,
  • L'imaginaire de la nation chez l'ésotériste Grasset d'Orcet, by Jean-Claude Drouin, in L'Imaginaire de la nation, actes du colloque européen de Bordeaux, 1991, Bordeaux, PU Bordeaux.

References

  1. ^ Office, Great Britain Patent (1864). Chronological Index of Patents Applied for and Patents Granted. G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode.
  2. ^ .