Quotes:Pauthier, Jean-Pierre-Guillaume

Zirkoff, Boris

Pauthier. Jean-Pierre-Guillaume. French poet and Orientalist; b. at Besançon, 1801; d. at Paris, 1873. Served in a regiment for about two years, 1824; published poems at first; then devoted himself entirely to Oriental studies, especially Sinology. Was a man of large views and open mind, but had frequent controver- cies with the Sinolog Stanislas Julien. Besides a great many translations of Oriental Scriptures and essays in various journals, his works include: La Chine. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1837. 2 vols.— Les livres sacrés de I’Orient. Ibid., 1840.—Sinico-Aegyptiaca. Ibid., 1842. —La doctrine du Tao, 1831, 1838.—*Essai sur la philosophie des Hindous. French translation of H. T. Colebrooke’s work, with addit. notes and Skt. texts, 1833. 8-vo.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, p. 388