Gaston BoissierMarie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier (1823 - 1908), French classical scholar and secretary of the Académie française, was born at Nîmes. The Roman monuments of his native town very early attracted Gaston Boissier to the study of ancient history. He mae epigraphy his particular theme and at the age of twenty-three became a professor of rhetoric at the University of Angoulême, where he lived and worked for ten years without further ambition. A travelling inspector of the university, however, happened to hear him lecture and Boissier was called to Paris to be professor at the Lycée Charlemagne. Read More Read Less