DEATH OF A NOTABLE FRENCHMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9988, 27 November 1895, Page 5

DEATH OF A NOTABLE FRENCHMAN.

Press Association,— Tfllsflttftpb.—ICopyright.1Copyright. Paris, November 25. The death is announced of Jules Bar-thelemy-Saint liilaire, the well-known writer and politician,, aged 90.

Jules Barth<sleroy-Saint Hilflii'O# scholar and politician, was born in Paris, and began life as a journalist, taking considerable part in the revolution of 1830. In 1833 he retired from politics and began his translation of Aristotle, for which he was appointed to the chair of Greek and Latin philosophy in the College of France in 1838. Two years later he began the study of banscrit. At the revolution of 1848 lie came forward again in support of Odilon Barrob, but resigned his professorship after the Gonp d'Etat, and. was nob reinstated till 1862, spending the meantime in independent research, and a journey to Egypt with M. de Lesseps to explore the Isthmus of Suez. He remained in Paris during the siege till summoned as doputy to the National Assembly, in which he pave valuable support to his old friend, M. Thiers. After the fall of Thiers iie continued to vote with the moderate Republicans, and joined the Republican minority in the Senate, when he was elected life Senator in 1875. In 1880 he accepted the portfolio of foreign . affairs under Jules Ferry, and in that capacity was identified with the occupation of Tunis by the French, which was followed by insurrections and the consequent downfall of the Cabinet. He ffBS literary executor to Victor Cousins and M. Thiers, As an author ho is most celebrated for his translations of Aristotle, and his works on Oriental literature and religion. _____