DAMIRON, JEAN PHILIBERT (1794-1862)

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DAMIRON, JEAN PHILIBERT (1794-1862) , French philosopher, was born at Belleville. At nineteen he entered the normal school, where he studied under Burnouf,

Villemain

VILLEMAIN, ABEL FRANCOIS (179o-1867)

, and

Cousin

COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and
familiar
- FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)
abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
COUSIN, JEAN (1500-1590)
COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

. After teaching for several years in provincial towns, he came to Paris, where he lectured on philosophy in various institutions, and finally became professor in the normal school, and titular professor at the Sorbonne. In 1824 he took part with P. F.

Dubois

and Th. S. Jouffroy in the

establishment

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement,
late
- LATE
Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

of the Globe; and he was also a member of the committee of the society which took for its motto Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera. In 1833 he was appointed chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and in 1836 member of the

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

of Moral Sciences. Damiron died at Paris on the

lath

LATH (0. Eng. laett, Mid. Eng. lappe, a form possibly due to the Welsh llath; the word appears in many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch lat, Ger. Latte, and has passed into Romanic, cf. Ital. latta, Fr. latte)

of January 1862.
The

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

works of Damiron, of which the best are his accounts of French philosophers, are the following:An edition of the Nouveaux melanges philosophiques de Jouffroy (1842), with a notice of the author, in which Damiron softened and omitted several expressions used by Jouffroy, which were opposed to the system of education adopted by the Sorbonne, an article which gave rise to a bitter controversy, and to a book by Pierre Leroux, De la mutilation des manuscrits de M. Jouffroy (1843); Essai sur l'histoire de la philosophie en France au XIX siecle (1828, 3rd ed.
1834); Essai sur l'histoire de la philosophie en France au X VII. siecle (1846); Memoires a servir pour l'histoire de la philosophic en France au X VIII. siecle (18581864); Cours de la philosophie; De la Providence (1849, 185o).
See A.

Franck

, Moralistes et philosophes (1872).

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