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C. F. L'Homond
1727–1794
Best remembered for making Latin easier to learn, this 18th-century French teacher wrote clear, practical schoolbooks that stayed in classrooms for generations.
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Selections from Viri Romae
by C. F. L'Homond
About the author
Born in Chaulnes in 1727, this French priest, grammarian, and educator built his reputation through teaching as well as writing. He studied in Paris at the Collège d'Inville and later became dean there, then spent many years teaching at the Collège du Cardinal-Lemoine.
He is especially associated with simple, durable textbooks for students, including Latin grammar and reading books such as De viris illustribus urbis Romae and Epitome historiae sacrae. Records from the Bibliothèque nationale de France also show how widely his works circulated and were republished after his lifetime.
He died on December 31, 1794. Although little personal detail survives in widely available sources, his influence is easy to see in the long classroom life of his books and in his reputation as a patient, practical educator.