Janet, PAUL, an eminent French philosopher, born at Paris, 30th April 1823. He was educated at the Normal School, and was in turn teacher in the gymnasium at Bourges, and professor of Philosophy in the faculty at Strasburg and of Logic in the lycée Louis-le-Grand. In 1864 he was elected to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and then he lectured in the Sorbonne at Paris. He died 4th October 1899.
His books are La Famille (1855), Histoire de la Philosophie morale et politique (1858), Le Philosophie du Bonheur (1862), Le Matérialisme contemporain en Allemagne (1864), Le Cerveau et la Pensée (1866), Les Problèmes du XIXe Siècle (1872), Philosophie de la Révolution Française (1875), Les Causes finales (1876; Eng. trans. 1878), La Philosophie Française contemporaine (1879), and Les Origines du Socialisme contemporain (1883).