Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire

French philosopher, journalist, statesman, and possible illegitimate son of Napoleon I of France (1805-1895)

Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire (19 August 1805 – 24 November 1895) was a French philosopher, journalist, statesman, and possible illegitimate son of Napoleon I of France.

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  • Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire (1861) remonstrated that "Mr. Max Muller would have done well not to have fixed things so precisely, and not to have circumscribed things so neatly"
    • commenting about Max Mullers methodology in dating of Hindu texts. in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 12
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