Eugène Benoist [SEP] place of death
Eugène Benoist
Eugène Benoist (28 November 1831, Nangis – 23 May 1887, Paris) was a French classical philologist.
From 1852 he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, followed by work as a schoolteacher at the lycée in Marseille. In 1862 he obtained his doctorate, and five years later became a lecturer of ancient literature in Nancy. In 1869 he attained the title of professor, and from 1871, taught classes in foreign literature at the University of Aix-en-Provence. In 1874 he
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- Battalion Chief Grégoire Benoist (volunteers)
- Second Captain Louis Eugène Cavaignac (military engineers)
- General Guillaume Corbet
- Colonel Amédée Despans-Cubières
- Colonel, then Brigadier General (artillery) Jean-Ernest Ducos de La Hitte
- François Dominique Victor Esperonnier (squad chief, artillery and military engineers)
- Colonel Charles Nicolas Fabvier, philhellene who had organised the Greek army, charged with accompanying the expedition for his knowledge of the terrain
- Colonel Paul-Eugène de