Desiré-Raoul Rochette

Desiré-Raoul Rochette (March 6, 1790 – July 3, 1854), was a French archaeologist.

Born at Saint-Amand in the department of Cher, he received his education at Bourges.

[1] He was named professor of history in the College of Louis-le-Grand at Paris in 1813 and in the Sorbonne in 1817.

His first major work was Histoire critique de l'établissement des colonies grecques (4 vols., 1815).

[3] At his death on 3 July 1854 Rochette was perpetual secretary of the Academy of Fine Arts and a corresponding member of most of the learned societies in Europe.