CAPPERONNIER, CLAUDE French clas sical scholar, born at Montdidier on May I, 1671. He took orders but devoted himself almost entirely to classical studies. He pub lished an edition of Quintilian (1725) and his edition of the ancient Latin Rhetoricians was published posthumously in 1756. He furnished much material for Robert Estienne's Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. His nephew, JEAN CAPPERONNIER (I 775), was also a distinguished scholar, and published valuable editions of classical authors—Caesar, Anacreon, Plautus, Sophocles.