Francisque Xavier Michel

Francisque Xavier Michel (18 February 1809, Lyon – 18 May 1887, Paris) was a French historian and philologist.

In 1837 he became a member of the Comité Historique and in 1838 chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.

In 1839 he was appointed professor of foreign literature in the Faculté des lettres at the University of Bordeaux.

He got his licence in literature in 1842, and his doctorat in 1846, with a thesis in Latin on Virgil and a thesis in French, entitled: Histoire des races maudites de la France et de l'Espagne.

Subsequently, he published French translations of Goldsmith, Sterne, Shakespeare, and Tennyson.