François Chamoux (4 April 1915 – 21 October 2007) was a French Hellenist and archaeologist, a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.
[1][2] Chamoux attended lyceums in Chartres and Metz and the Lycée Henri IV in Paris and studied from 1934 at the École Normale Supérieure and was Agrégé des lettres in classical languages in 1938.
After that, he served in World War II (where he received the Silver Croix de Guerre) and in 1941 was severely wounded.
Subsequently, he served as an assistant at the University of Lille and the Sorbonne and teacher in a Parisian high school (lycée).
He did a lot of excavations in Greece (already in his time at the École francaise in Athens in the 1940s), among others in Delphi, Thasos, and the colonies of Kyrene in Libya .