Louis Gustave Vapereau

Born in Orléans, Louis Gustave Vapereau studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure from 1838 to 1843, writing his thesis on Pascal's Pensées under the supervision of Victor Cousin.

He taught philosophy at Tours until the establishment of the Second French Empire in 1852, when his republican principles cost him his position.

[1] After the collapse of the Empire, Vapereau was appointed prefect of Cantal on 14 September 1870 by Jules Trochu's Government of National Defense.

[1] Vapereau was the author of some excellent editions of the classics, and of works on political and social questions, but he is famous for his two dictionaries.

At the time of his death at Morsang-sur-Orge (Essonne) in 1906, he had been a regular contributor to L'Illustration for twenty-six years, with some of his notes written for the journal being collected and published in 1896 as L'Homme et la vie.