Charles Pierre Chapsal
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Charles Pierre Chapsal (Paris 1787– Paris 1858) was a French grammarian and editor of the Classics, a founding member in 1821 of the Société de Géographie. He taught at the Collège Louis-le-Grand. His principal work was his Nouvelle Grammaire Française[1] in which he collaborated with François-Joseph-Michel Noël. The work was more complete and more logical than the previous standard grammar of Charles Lhomond; it first appeared in 1823, and by the time of the author's death it had passed through more than forty editions, eighty by 1889.
On the proceeds of his early labour, Chapsal was able to retired to the Château de Polangis, near Joinville-le-Pont, where he became a benefactor of the commune. He bequeathed a sum of 80,000 francs to be distributed in the banlieus of Paris.
Translations were printed in the United States, by Moss (Philadelphia, 1878) and an abridgment based on the authors' own, which had been published in 1826, by Lockwood (New York, 1869).
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- ^ Nouvelle Grammaire Française sur un plan très-méthodique, avec de nombreux exercices d'orthographe, de syntaxe et de ponctuation, tirés de nos meilleurs auteurs, et distribués dans l'ordre des règles.
