Joseph-Victor Leclerc

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Joseph-Victor Le Clerc

Joseph-Victor Leclerc (1789, in

École normale, then professor of Latin speech (éloquence latine) at the Faculté des lettres de Paris, then dean of that Faculté (1832–65) and finally a member of the Institut de France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
, 1834).

He produced an annotated edition of the works of

Montaigne in 1826, translated Cicero
in thirty volumes (1821–25). He also wrote les Journaux chez les Romains (1838), Discours sur l’état des lettres en France au XIVe s. (1865) and several articles for Histoire littéraire de la France, published by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Sources

Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBouillet, Marie-Nicolas; Chassang, Alexis, eds. (1867). "Leclerc (Joseph-Victor)". Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French). Vol. 2. p. 3.