Théophile Silvestre
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| Born | Simon Clément Louis Théophile Silvestre 12 October 1823 |
| Died | 20 June 1876 (aged 52) Paris, France |
Simon Clément Louis Théophile Silvestre (12 October 1823 – 20 June 1876) was a French art historian and critic. He is known for creating History of Living Artists, French and Foreign: Studies from Nature, a collection of contemporaneous biographical studies of European artists of the mid-19th century.
Théophile Silvestre He was born on 12 October 1823 in Le Fossat, Ariège, France, to a bourgeois Catholic family.[1] He was the son of the tax collector of Artigat.[2]
He studied at the seminary in Pamiers.[2] He then studied medicine in Toulouse, law in Paris and attended courses at the École Nationale des Chartes.[1] Silvestre was appointed but not installed as sous-commissaire of Saint-Girons, Ariège.[3] He was installed commissaire adjoint of Ariège on 5 April 1848, and resigned the next day.[1][3] While he was a committed republican during the Revolution of 1848, he later became aligned with the Second French Empire.[4]
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