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Jeaa Baptiste Lonis George Se-Roux D Agioourt, a French archaeologist, born at Beau-vais, April 5, 1730, died in Rome, Sept. 24, 1814. His reputation rests on a work executed in Rome, entitled Histoire de l'art par les monuments, depuis sa decadence au quatrieme siecle jusqii'a son renouiellement au seizieme (6 vols, folio, with 325 engravings, 1823), to which are added analytical tables by M. Gence.
 
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