Charles Pierre Chapsal
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Charles Pierre Chapsal was a French
France
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 grammar
Grammar
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ian, editor of the Classics
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 and a founding member in 1821 of the Société de Géographie
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.

Chapsal was born in Paris
Paris
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 and taught at the Collège Louis-le-Grand. His principal work was his Nouvelle Grammaire Française in which he collaborated with François-Joseph-Michel Noël
François Noël
François-Joseph-Michel Noël was a French humanist.-Life:A student then a professor at the collège Louis-le-Grand, Noël left his job at the outbreak of the French Revolution, collaborating on the journal la Chronique and going on several diplomatic missions.Named a member of the Tribunat, he left...

. The work was more complete and more logical than the previous standard grammar of Charles François Lhomond
Charles François Lhomond
Charles François Lhomond was a French grammarian and educator who was a native of Chaulnes, Somme.He attended classes at the Collège d'Inville in Paris, where he subsequently became dean of the school...

; it first appeared in 1823, and by the time of the author's death it had passed through more than forty editions, eighty by 1889.

On the proceeds of his early labour, Chapsal was able to retire to the Château de Polangis, near Joinville-le-Pont
Joinville-le-Pont
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, where he became a benefactor of the commune and mayor 1843-48, 1850-58. He died in Paris in 1858 and bequeathed a sum of 80,000 francs to be distributed in the banlieue
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s of Paris.

Translations were printed in the United States, by Moss (Philadelphia, 1878) and an abridgment based on the authors' own, which had been published in 1826, by Lockwood (New York, 1869).
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