Demogoot

Demogoot, JACQUES CLAUDE, a French littérateur, born 5th July 1808 at Paris, lectured at Beauvais, Rennes, Bordeaux, and Lyons, and was appointed in 1843 to the chair of Rhetoric at the Lycée St-Louis at Paris. Most of his books treat of the history of literature; the chief are Les Lettres et les Hommes de Lettres au XIX. Siècle (1856); Histoire de la Littérature française (1857), an admirable hand-book; Tableau de la Littérature française au XVII. Siècle (1859); and Histoire des Littératures étrangères (2 vols. 1880). His poems are little known. He died 9th January 1894.