Quotes:Decharme, Paul

Zirkoff, Boris

Decharme, Paul (1839-1905). French professor and hellenist, b. at Beaume, Dec. 15, 1839; d. at Vaudréxnont, 1905. After prelim, studies joined the Ecole d’Athènes, becoming later Prof, of Greek language and literature at Univ, of Nancy. Head of this Dpt., 1883-86. Taught Greek poetry at Univ, of Paris, 1887. Works: *Mythologie de la Grèce antique. Paris: Garnier frères, 1879. 8vo. xxxv, 644 pp.; 2nd rev. and corr. ed., ibid., 1886. xxxvii, 693 pp.—Les Muses, etc., 1869.—La critique des traditions religieuses chez les grecs, 1904.— Contributed to the Dictionnaire des ant. grecs et romaines of Daremberg and Saglio, and to the Revue de l’histoire des religions.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, p. 435