CHALLAMEL

challamel, jean baptiste marius augustin (1818-1894), french historian, was born in paris on the 18th of march 1818. his writings consist chiefly of popular works, which enjoyed great success. the value of some of his books is enhanced by numerous illustrations, e.g. _histoire-musee de la revolution francaise_, which appeared in 50 numbers in 1841-1842 (3rd ed., in 72 numbers, 1857-1858); _histoire de la mode en france; la toilette des femmes depuis l'epoque gallo-romaine jusqu'a nos jours_ (1874, with 12 plates; new ed., 1880, with 21 coloured plates). his _memoires du peuple francaise_ (1865-1873) and _la france et les francais a travers les siecles_ (1882) at least have the merit of being among the first books written on the social history of france. in this sense challamel was a pioneer, of no great originality, it is true, but at any rate of fairly wide information. he died on the 20th of october 1894.