Charles Ernest Beulé

Charles Ernest Beule (29 June, 1826 - 4 April, 1874) was a French archaeologist and politician.

Born at Saumur, he was educated at the Ecole Normale, and after having held the professorship of rhetoric at Moulins for a year, was sent to Athens in 1851 as one of the professors in the Ecole Francaise there.

He had the good fortune to discover the propylaea of the Acropolis, and his work, L'Acropole d'Athenes was published by order of the minister of public instruction. On his return to France, promotion and distinctions followed rapidly upon his first successes. He was made doctor of letters, chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, professor of archaeology at the Bibliotheque Imperiale, member of the Acadamie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and perpetual secretary of the Academie des Beaux-Arts.

He took great interest in political affairs, with which the last few years of his life were entirely occupied. Elected a member of the National Assembly in 1871, he zealously supported the Orleanist party. In May-November 1873 he was minister of the interior in the Broglie ministry. He committed suicide on the 4th of April 1874.

His other important works are: Etudes sur he Ploponnse (2nd edition 1875); Les Monnaies d'Athnes published in 1858; L'Architecture au sicle de Pisistrate published in 1860; and Fouilles a Carthage published in 1861.

Beul was also the author of high-class popular works on artistic and historical subjects: Histoire de lart grec avant Pricls, the second edition of which was published in 1870, and Le Procs des Csars published in four parts between 1867 and 1870.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)