Damiron, Jean Piiilibert DAMIRON, JEAN PIIILIBERT (1794-1862), a
French writer on philosophy, was born at Belleville in 1794. At
nineteen he entered the normal school, where he studied under
Burnouf, Villemain, and Cousin. After teaching for several years
in provincial towns, he came to Paris, where he lectured on
philosophy in various institutions, and finally became professor
in the normal school, and titular professor at the Sorbonne. In
1824 he took part with Dubois and Jouffroy in the establishment
of the Globe; and he was also a member of the committee of the
society which took for its motto Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera. In
1833 lie was appointed chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and in
1836 member of the Academy of Moral Sciences. Damiron died at
Paris on the 11th January 1862. The chief works of Damiron, of
which the best are his accounts of French philosophers, are the
following : - An edition of the Nouveaux Melanges Philosophiques
de Jouffroy (1842), with a notice of the author, in which
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