Louis Léger was a French writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

 and pioneer in Slavic studies. Léger studied under Aleksander Chodźko

Aleksander Chodzko

Aleksander Borejko Chodźko was a Polish poet, Slavist, and Iranologist.-Biography:He was born in Krzywicze in Russia , and attended the University of Vilnius...

 at the Collège de France

Collège de France

The Collège de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles...

, whose position he eventually succeeded in 1885 by taking up the Slav Literature and Language chair of Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ) was a Polish poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature...

, which he occupied until 1923. Léger claimed that those who had not lived during the Second French Empire

Second French Empire

The Second French Empire or French Empire was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.-Rule of Napoleon III:...

 could not possibly imagine the effect of Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

influence on French society. Léger helped translate various Polish works.

Works

• La Crise autrichienne, Paris, 1868
• Histoire de Autriche-Hongrie, Paris, 1879
• Cours de Louis Léger, leçon d’ouverture au Collège de France, Revue bleue politique et littéraire, 1885
• La Bulgarie, Paris, 1885
• Nouvelles études slaves histoire et littérature, 1886
• Russes et Slaves, études politiques et littéraires, Hachette, 1890
• Le monde slave, études politiques et littéraires, Hachette, 1902
• Nicolas Gogol, 1913
• Moscou, 1910