Amédée Pichot
Joseph Jean-Baptiste Marie Charles Amédée Pichot (3 November 1795 – 12 February 1877) was a French historian and translator.

He was an Anglophile and the first translator of Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott into French.  In 1825 he published Voyage Historique et Littéraire en Angleterre et en Écosse, an account of a visit to Britain which includes discussion of contemporary British literature and painting.  After 1825, he was the Editor of the Revue Britannique. In 1858 he published a biography of the Scottish surgeon and anatomist Charles Bell.

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1795 births
1877 deaths
19th-century French writers
French medical writers
People from Arles
Translators from English
19th-century French translators
19th-century French male writers
French male non-fiction writers