Éloi Johanneau [SEP] native language
Éloi Johanneau
Éloi Johanneau (2 October 1770 – 24 July 1851) was a French philologist.
of the newly established "département" the Oise by Napoleon, and engaged himself deeply not just in administrative but also in cultural, archeological, and historical matters; when he left office, on 16 May 1802, he had given the new "département" a sense of unity and had convinced its inhabitants that they had a history they should be proud of. He was the first president of the "académie celtique" which he cofounded in 1804 with the philologist Éloi Johanneau and the diplomat Michel-Ange Mangourit. The "