Background
Jacques Claude Demogeot was born on the 5th of July, 1808 in Paris, France.
Jacques Claude Demogeot was born on the 5th of July, 1808 in Paris, France.
Jacques Claude Demogeot was professor of rhetoric at the Lycée Saint-Louis, and subsequently assistant professor at the Sorbonne. He wrote many detached papers on various literary subjects, and two reports on secondary education in England and Scotland in collaboration with H. Montucci. His reputation rests on his Histoire de la littérature française depuis ses origines jusqu’à nos jours (1851), which has passed through many subsequent editions.
Jacques Claude Demogeot was the author of a Tableau de la littérature française au XVIIe siècle (1859), and of a work (3 vols, 1880–1883) on the influence of foreign literatures on the development of French literature.