Gustave Fallot

Gustave Fallot ( born November 17 1807 in Montbéliard, † July 6, 1836 in Paris) was a French linguist and medievalist.

Life and work

Fallot, who was a Protestant origin, taught himself in the library of Gray. Charles White (1779-1886), the librarian of Besançon, gave him to Paris, where he in 1834 the diploma of the Ecole des Chartes acquired and was appointed assistant librarian at the Institut de France. In his early death he bequeathed edited by his friend Paul Ackermann manuscript:

• Recherches sur les formes de la langue française grammaticales et de ses dialectes au XIIIe siècle, Paris 1839 (588 pages, with tributes by Paul Ackermann and Benjamin Guérard ( 1797-1854 ).

In the history of the Old French Grammatikographie the book takes an important place among the grammars of Konrad von Orelli ( 1830) and Georges -Frédéric Burguy (1853 ).