1. Volney’s will has been published by Jean Gaulmier in his two studies devoted to Volney: L’Idéologue Volney (1757–1820). Contribution à l’histoire de l’orientalisme en France (Beirut: Imprimerie Catholique, 1951), pp. 560–561, and Un grand témoin de la Révolution et de l’Empire. Volney (Paris: Hachette, 1959), p. 321. The subjects proposed by the prize commission are found in the manuscript of the “Comptes-rendus”, Archives, Institut de France, series H1.
2. Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, XIV: I (1845), 7–8.
3. The Grand Larousse de la langue française gives for the term “philologie comparée” the date 1840, from Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Chartes, I, 471. The term was already employed at that time in scientific circles. Raymond Schwab, La Renaissance orientale (Paris: Payot, 1950), p. 111, shows it was included in Encyclopédie des gens du monde in 1834, in the article “Philologie”.
4. Comptes-rendus … Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres … 1857, 1858, 11.
5. Ibid., 250.