SADOUS, Alfred Louis Noël de. Paris 1815 — 1892. French Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Probably Burnouf’s student. Agrégé de lettres 1840, dr.-ès-lettres 1847 Paris. Many years teacher (“professor”) at troisième at Lycée de Versailles, finally retired and lived in Sèvres. Married 1890 Elisa Joséphine Petit (b. 1833).
Publications: Diss. I De la rhetorique attribuée Denys d’Halicarnasse. 99 p. 1847; diss. II Sancti Augustini De doctrina christiana libri expenduntur, seu de rhetorica apud Christianos disquisitio. 69 p. P. 1847..
– French transl. of G. G. Grote, Histoire de la Grèce. 1–10, 1864–67.
– Translated: Fragments du Mahabharata traduits du sanscrit en français. 125 p. P. 1858.
– French translation of A. Weber, Histoire de la littérature indienne. 12+495 p. P. 1859.
Sources: Catal. gén. de la librairie française 4, 1840-1865. P. 1871; & data.bnf.fr; full name in rhe.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr; death and wife in geneanet.org.
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