BEULE, CHARLES ERNEST (1826-74), French archae ologist and politician, was born at Saumur on June 29 1826. As one of the professors in the Ecole Francaise at Athens he had the good fortune to discover the propylaea of the Acropolis, and his work, L'Acropole d'Athenes (2nd ed., 1863), was published by order of the minister of public instruction. In May—Nov. 1873 he was minister of the interior in the Broglie ministry. He died by his own hand on April 4 1874. He was the author of numerous works on archaeological and historical subjects.
See Ideville, Monsieur Beule, Souvenirs personnels (1874) .