Desire Raoul Rochette (called Raoul-Ro-chette), a French archaeologist, born at St. Amand, near Bourges, about 1790, died in Paris, July 5, 1854. He was educated at the college of Bourges, went to Paris at the age of 21, and became substitute for Guizot in the professorship of modern history at the faculty of letters in 1815, member of the academy of inscriptions and editor of the Journal des Savants in 1816, keeper of the cabinet of medals in the royal library in 1818, royal censor of newspapers in 1820, assistant of Quatre-mère de Quincy in the chair of archaeology in 1824, and his successor in 1826, a member of the scientific commission to the Morea in 1828, and perpetual secretary of the academy of fine arts in 1839. A volume of his lessons was translated into English by H. M. Westropp ("Lectures on Ancient Art," London, 1854). Among his numerous other works are: His-toire critique de l'étaolissement des colonies grecques (4 vols. 8vo, 1815); Lettres sur la Suisse (3 vols. 8vo, 1820-'22, and fol., with plates, 1823-'7); Monuments inédits d'anti-quité figurée grecque, étrusque et romaine (fol., 1828); Peintures antiques inédites (4to, 1836); and Sur les antiquités chrétiennes des cata-combes (4to, 1839).