Charles François Lhomond

Who was Charles François Lhomond?

Charles François Lhomond was a French priest, grammarian, and educator who was a native of Chaulnes, Somme.

He attended classes at the Collège d'Inville in Paris, where he subsequently became dean of the school. Later he spent twenty years as an educator at the Collège du Cardinal-Lemoine in the Latin Quarter of Paris, and afterwards was professor emeritus at the University of Paris.

Lhomond is remembered for contributions made in the field of education, being the author of several works on grammar, Roman history and religious history. His textbook from 1779, De viris illustribus urbis Romae a Romulo ad Augustum, was used by French students until the 20th Century learning Roman history and Latin.

Other works by Lhomond include:

Éléments de grammaire française.

Éléments de grammaire latine,.

Epitome historiae sacrae.

Histoire abrégée de l'Église

Histoire abrégée de la religion avant la venue de Jésus-Christ Abrégée.

In 1792 he was jailed for refusing to swear allegiance to the Civil Constitution du clergé, but was released shortly afterwards through intervention by Jean-Lambert Tallien, a former student of his at Collège du Cardinal-Lemoine.