DARESTE DE LA CHAVANNE, CLEOPHAS 1882), French historian, was born in Paris. Educated at the Ecole des Chartes, he became professor in the faculty of letters at Grenoble in 1844, and in 1849 at Lyons, where he remained nearly 3o years. His works comprise: Histoire de l'administration en France depuis Philippe-Auguste (2 vols., 1848), and a Histoire de France (8 vols., 1865-73), completed by a Histoire de la Restauration (2 vols., 188o), and by a Histoire du Gouvernement de Juillet, a dry enumeration of dates and facts. Before the publi cation of Lavisse's great work, Dareste's general history of France was the best of its kind.