Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie

Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie (12 August 1774 – 8 September 1857) was a French classical scholar.

Driven out in 1795, he was restored by Lucien Bonaparte, during whose time of office he served as secretary to the prefecture of the Upper Marne.

He then resigned public employment permanently, in order to devote his time to the study of Greek.

He also held the offices of librarian of the Bibliothèque du Roi, and perpetual secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions.

[1] A selection of his papers was published by Ferdinand Colincamp, Critique littéraire sous le premier Empire (1863), vol.