Barges, Jean Joseph Le'andre

Roman Catholic abbe; b. at Auriol (Bouches-du-Rhone), Feb. 27, 1810; studied Arabic and Hebrew at Marseilles; was ordained priest in 1834; has been since 1842 profe or of Oriental languages in the faculty of Catholic theology at Paris; and since 1860 honorary canon of Notre Dame. He has written, Traditions orientates sur les pyramiiles d'Egypte, Marseilles, 1841; Rabbi Yapheth ben Hali Ba o rens is Karitai in librum Psalmorum com men tar i i arabic i edidit et in Lalinum convert it, Paris, 1846, and Yapheth's Versio, 1861; Apercu hist or i que sur I'E^glise d'Afrique, 1848; Le Here de Ruth, 1854; Hebron et le tombeau du patriarche Abraham: Traditions et Le'gendes musulmanes rapporte'es par les auteurs arabes, 1863. *