Abel-François Villemain:
( Paris, France, 9 June 1790 – Paris, France, 8 May 1870) was a French politician and writer.
Educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
He became assistant master at the Lycée Charlemagne, and subsequently at the École Normale.
In 1812 he gained a prize from the academy with an essay on Michel de Montaigne. Under the restoration he was appointed, first, assistant professor of modern history, and then professor of French eloquence at the Sorbonne.
Here he delivered a series of literary lectures which had an extraordinary effect on his younger contemporaries.
