Jean-Baptiste Gail

During the French Revolution, he maintained his professional duties, taking no part in politics, although he managed to ingratiate himself with those in authority.

Gail believed there was an organized conspiracy to belittle his learning and professional success, and there was a feud between him and his literary opponents, the most distinguished of whom was PL Courier.

The list of Gail's published works filled 500 quarto pages of the introduction to his edition of Xenophon.

His communications to the Académie des Inscriptions being coldly received and seldom accorded the honour of print, he inserted them in a vast compilation in 24 volumes, which he called Le Philologue, containing a mass of ill-digested notes on Greek grammar, geography, archaeology, and various authors.

[1] A list of his works will be found in JM Quérard, La France littéraire (1829), including the contents of the volumes of Le Philologue.