BOISSIER, MARIE LOUIS ANTOINE GASTON (1823-19°8), French classical scholar, was born at Nimes on Aug. 15, 18 2 3. After io years at Angouleme, Boissier was ap pointed professor at the Lycee Charlemagne in Paris, and in 1861 became professor of Latin oratory at the College de France. He was elected a member of the French Academy in 1875, and appointed perpetual secretary in 1895. He died in June 1go8. His great theme was the reconstruction of Roman society.
See Studies on Attius (1857) and Varro 0860 ; Ciceron et ses antis (i865) (Eng. trans. by A. D. Jones, 1867) ; La Religion Romaine d'Auguste aux Antonins (1874) ; L'Opposition sous les Cesars ; Promenades archeologiques: Rome et Pompei (188o; second series, 1886) ; L'A f rique romaine, promenades archeologiques (i 9oi) ; La Fin du paganisme (1891) ; Le Conjuration de Catilina (19os) ; Tacite (1903, Eng. trans. by W. G. Hutchinson, 1906) ; Madame de Sevigne (1887) ; Saint-Simon (1892). See also P. Thoulouze, Gaston Boissier