Louis Gustave Vapereau
Louis Gustave Vapereau ( born April 4, 1819 in Orléans, † 1906 in Morsang -sur -Orge ) was a French lexicographer and publicist.
Life and work
Vapereau spent his school years in his hometown and began in 1838 in Paris philosophy at the École supérieure normal (ENS ) to study. In 1843 he was able to complete this study with Victor Cousin with his dissertation on Blaise Pascal's " Les Pensées ". He then accepted a call to Tours.
When the Second Empire in 1852 with Napoleon III. transformed into a dictatorship, tasted his republican- liberal attitude Vapereau the position. Unemployed, he returned to Paris and began studying law at the Sorbonne. In 1854 he passed his exams and was admitted to the bar.
Vapereau practiced this profession and devoted himself never from this time, only the literature and especially of lexicography. The siege of Paris he escaped through his appointment as prefect of Cantal by Louis Jules Trochu and its Gouverment de la Defende Nationale. Between March 26, 1871 and 15 February 1873, he served as prefect of the department of Tarn -et -Garonne; known for its liberal attitude continued the Roman Catholic Church Vapereaus by detachment. Project was led by Archbishop Florian Desprez.
Between January 1877 and December 1888 had Vapereau as general inspector of public schools. Then he devoted himself only his publications. In addition to his lexicographical works he wrote for several newspapers and Zeirtschriften as "Revue français ", " Le petit journal " and " L' Illustration ". The magazine " L' année littéraire et drammatique " he admitted 1859-1869 out for yourself.
Writings (selection )
- Dictionnaire universel of contemporains
- Dictionnaire universel of Littératures
- L' homme et la vie