Jacques Claude Demogeot was a French

French people

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 man of letters

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He was born in Paris. He was professor of rhetoric at the Lycée Saint Louis, and subsequently assistant professor at the Sorbonne

University of Paris

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. He wrote many detached papers on various literary subjects, and two reports on secondary education in England and Scotland

Scotland

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 in collaboration with H. Montucci. His reputation rests on his (1851), which has passed through many subsequent editions. He was the author of a (1859), and of a work (3 vols., 1880–1883) on the influence of foreign literatures on the development of French literature

French literature

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. He died in Paris in 1894.