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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Louis Leger (1843–1923)

Leger, Paul Louis (le-zhā’). A French scholar and author; born in Toulouse, Jan. 13, 1843; died in 1923. He was professor of Slavic languages at the Collège de France, and did much to awaken an interest in the history and philology of the Slav peoples by such works as: ‘Slav Studies’ (1875); ‘History of Austria-Hungary’ (1878), translated into English; ‘Slav Tales’ (1882); ‘The Save, Danube, and Balkan’ (1884); ‘Bulgaria’ (1885); ‘Russians and Slavs’ (1890); ‘Russian Literature’; ‘The Slavic World’; ‘Slavic Mythology’ (1902).