LITTRÉ, Michel-François. Avranches, Normandy 25.5.1765 — 20.12.1827. French Pioneer of Indology. Son of goldsmith Jean Littré and Marie Anne Liégears (1739–1768). Served in French navy and adopted revolutionary ideas. Then settled in Paris as tax-collector. In order to give good education to his sons he achieved a library and studied Greek, later also Sanskrit. Married Marie Sophie Johannot (1772–1843), two sons (the physician and philologist Émile Littré, 1801–1881, who was known as lexicographer and translator of Hippocrates, also a friend of Burnouf and student of Sanskrit).
Publications: Review of O. Frank’s Chrestomathia Sanskrita, JA 3, 1823, 51-56.
Sources: Not in B.U., his son in N.B.G. 31 and French Wikipédia; life dates in gw.geneanet.org/bourelly?lang=fr&p=michel+francois&n=littre.
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