Émile Picot


Émile Picot was a French Romance philologist.
In 1865 he obtained his law degree, and afterwards served as a lawyer at the Court of Appeals in Paris. He later worked as a French vice-consular agent in Hermannstadt and Témesvar. From 1875 to 1909 he taught classes in Romanian philology at the École spéciale des Langues orientales in Paris. In 1888 he received the title of professor.
From 1897 to 1918 he was a free member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and from 1914 to 1918 he served as director of the Société des antiquaires de Normandie. He was also an editor of the journal, Revue de linguistique et de philologie comparée.

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