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Félix Marie Louis Jean Robiou de La Tréhonnais
1818–1894
A French historian and university teacher, he wrote deeply researched books on the ancient world, from Rome and Egypt to the Gauls of the East. His work has the feel of serious 19th-century scholarship, full of curiosity about how old civilizations were governed, remembered, and debated.
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Observations critiques sur l'archélogie dite préhistorique, spécialement en ce qui concerne la race celtique (1879)
by Félix Marie Louis Jean Robiou de La Tréhonnais
About the author
Félix Marie Louis Jean Robiou de La Tréhonnais, often listed as Félix Robiou, was a French historian and professor born in Rennes in 1818. Sources describe him as a scholar of ancient history and the classical world, with interests that reached from Rome to Egypt and the ancient Near East.
He taught at the lycées of Pontivy and Laval, later served at the Faculties of Letters in Strasbourg and Nancy, and then became professor of Greek literature at the Faculty of Rennes. He was also a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres from 1882 to 1894, a good sign of the respect his research earned among French scholars.
His known works include studies on ancient Rome, Egypt under the Ptolemies, the Gauls of the East, and debates around prehistoric archaeology. He died in 1894; sources agree on Rennes as both his birthplace and the city connected with his death, though one source notes some uncertainty over the exact death date.