Émile Picot

Émile Picot (13 September 1844, in Paris – 24 September 1918, in Saint-Martin-d'Écublei) was a French Romance philologist.

In 1865 he obtained his law degree, and afterwards served as a lawyer at the Court of Appeals in Paris.

He later worked as a French vice-consular agent in Hermannstadt (from 1868) and Témesvar (from 1869).

From 1875 to 1909 he taught classes in Romanian philology at the École spéciale des Langues orientales in Paris.

[1] From 1897 to 1918 he was a free member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and from 1914 to 1918 he served as director of the Société des antiquaires de Normandie.