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Charles Ernest Beulé (
29 June 1826 –
4 April 1874) was a
French archaeologist and
politician.
Biography
Born at
Saumur, he was educated at the
École Normale, and after having held the professorship of
rhetoric at
Moulins for a year, was sent to
Athens in
1851 as one of the professors in the
École Française there.
He had the good fortune to discover the
propylaea of the
acropolis, and his work,
L'Acropole d'Athenes was published by order of the minister of public instruction. On his return to France, promotion and distinctions followed rapidly upon his first successes. He was made doctor of letters,
chevalier of the
Légion d'honneur, professor of archaeology at the
Bibliothèque Impériale, member of the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and perpetual secretary of the
Académie des Beaux-Arts.
He took great interest in political affairs, with which the last few years of his life were entirely occupied. Elected a member of the
National Assembly in 1871, he zealously supported the
Orleanist party. Between May and November 1873 he was
Minister of the Interior in the
Broglie ministry.
He committed
suicide on
4 April 1874, aged 47.
Works
His other important works are:
Études sur le Peloponnese (2nd edition 1875);
Les Monnaies d'Athenes (published in 1858);
L'Architecture au siècle de Pisistrate (published in 1860); and
Fouilles à Carthage (published in 1861).
Beulé was also the author of high-class popular works on artistic and historical subjects:
Histoire de l'art grec avant Pericles, the second edition of which was published in
1870, and
Le Proces des Cesars published in four parts between
1867 and
1870.
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