Jean-Philibert Damiron was a French

France

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 philosopher.

Biography

Damiron was born at Belleville

Belleville, Paris

Belleville is a neighbourhood of Paris, France, parts of which lie in four different arrondissements. The major portion of Belleville straddles the borderline between the 20th arrondissement and the 19th along its main street, the Rue de Belleville...

. At nineteen he entered the normal school, where he studied under Eugène Burnouf

Eugène Burnouf

Eugène Burnouf was an eminent French scholar and orientalist who made significant contributions to the deciphering of Old Persian cuneiform....

, Abel-Francois Villemain

Abel-François Villemain

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, and Victor Cousin

Victor Cousin

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. After teaching for several years in provincial towns, he came to Paris, where he lectured on philosophy in various institutions, and finally became professor in the normal school, and titular professor at the Sorbonne

University of Paris

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. In 1824 he joined Paul-François Dubois and Théodore Simon Jouffroy

Théodore Simon Jouffroy

Théodore Simon Jouffroy was a French philosopher.He was born at Les Pontets, Franche-Comté, département of Doubs. In his tenth year, his father, a tax-gatherer, sent him to an uncle at Pontarlier, under whom he began his classical studies...

 in establishing the Globe; and he was also a member of the committee of the society which took for its motto Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera. In 1833 he was appointed chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and in 1836 member of the Academy of Moral Sciences. Damiron died in Paris.

His chief works, of which the best are his accounts of French philosophers, are the following: An edition of the Nouveaux mélanges philosophiques de Jouffroy (1842), with a notice of the author, in which Damiron softened and omitted several expressions used by Jouffroy, which were opposed to the system of education adopted by the Sorbonne, an article which gave rise to a bitter controversy, and to a book by Pierre Leroux

Pierre Leroux

Pierre Henri Leroux , French philosopher and political economist, was born at Bercy, now a part of Paris, the son of an artisan.- Life :...

, De la mutilation des manuscrits de M. Jouffroy (1843); Essai sur l'histoire de la philosophie en France au XIX' siècle (I828, 3rd ed. 1834); Essai sur l'histoire de la philosophie en France au XVII' siècle (1846); Mémoires a servir pour l'histoire de la philosophie en France au XVIII' siècle (1858-1864); Cours de la philosophie; De la Providence (1849, 1850).

See Adolphe Franck, Moralistes et philosophes (1872).