Jean Auguste Amar du Rivier (or Amar-Durivier)
(1765/1837)
Man of letters, translator, curator of the Bibliothèque Mazarine (1803).
Prince Constantin Andronikov
(1916/1997)
A Russian prince, philologist, doctor of theology, diplomat, and writer, he spent his career at the Quai d'Orsay, where he served as an official interpreter. He notably translated numerous works by Sergei Bulgakov and was dean of the Orthodox Theological Institute of Paris, where he taught liturgical theology.
Maurice Baring
(1874/1945)
English playwright, poet, novelist, translator and essayist.
Gilles Boileau
(1631/1669)
Translator, poet, controller of the King's silverware and member of the French Academy. He died at thirty-eight years old; he was the older brother of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux.
Antoine Marie Henri Boulard
(1754/1825)
A bibliophile, he assembled a library of over 300,000 books; executor of La Harpe's will, editor of the Journal de la Librairie et des Arts, author of numerous translations.
Salomon Certon
(1552/After 1620)
French poet, translator of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes
(1759/1845)
French merchant and sinologist. Son of the academician and sinologist Joseph de Guignes, he was the interpreter for the Dutch ambassador Isaac Titsingh at the Qianlong court in 1794 and 1795. He is the author of a dictionary of Chinese, French and Latin.