work was the first scientific exposition of the Chinese language in Europe, and was later praised by Henri Maspero as "the first [work] in which the grammar was isolated to take account of the proper spirit of the Chinese language, and not just as a translation exercise where all the grammatical forms of the European languages [...] imposed their individual patterns." Rémusat became an editor of the Journal des savants in 1818. Amid other misunderstanding of his sources, his self-assured misreading of the Japanese mujintō (, "desert island[s]") in an 1817 article for the journal was responsible for the name of the Bonin Islands. He was the founder and first secretary of the Société asiatique at Paris in 1822; he also held various Government appointments. In 1826, Rémusat published Iu-kiao-li, ou les deux cousines, roman chinois (Yu Jiao Li, titled in English as Iu-kiao-li: or, the Two Fair Cousins), one of the first Chinese novels known in Europe (the Chinese original is a minor work, though). It was read by Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Goethe and Stendhal. A list of his works is given in Quérard's France littéraire s.v. Rémusat. His letters to Wilhelm von Humboldt are also of interest. In 1829, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. Around 1830 Rémusat was commissioned to inventory the Chinese items held in the French Royal Library, which inspired him to begin a translation of the bibliographical sections of the Wenxian tongkao to assist European scholars in studying Chinese scholarship. He completed the first volume, "Classics", in 1832, but contracted cholera and died before it was printed. Rémusat is buried along with his wife Jenny Lecamus – the daughter of Jean Lecamus, a former mayor of Paris – near the church of St. Fargeau in Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry, Seine-et-Marne. Selected works . . . . . . . . , Vol. I and II. , Vol. I, II, III, and IV, from the novel by Zhang Yun during the early Qing dynasty. , Vol. I and II. . , Pt. I, II. Histoire du Tibet [History of Tibet], and III. Histoire des Mongols [History of the Mongols]. , completed and expanded by Julius Klaproth and E.A.X.C. de Landresse. . , organized by a Institut de France committee composed of C.B. Hase, J.B.F. Lajard, and Eugène Burnouf. {{citation |last=Abel-Rémusat |first=Jean-Pierre |author-link=Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat |display-authors=0 |ref= |date=1999 |author2-first=Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand