CHEZY, ANTOINE LEONARD DE ) French orientalist, was born at Neuilly on Jan. 15, 1773. He was the first occupant of the chair of Sanskrit in the College de France (1815), at that time the only chair of Sanskrit in Europe. Among his works were Medjouin et Leila (1807), from the Persian; Yadjanadatta Badha (1814) and La Reconnaissance de Sacountala (1830), from the Sanskrit ; L'Anthologie erotique d' Amrou (1831), published under the pseudonym d'Apudy.
See the Memoires of the Academie des Inscriptions (new series, vol. xii.), where there is a notice of Chezy by Silvestre de Sacy.