After a passage of six months, Anquetil landed, on the 10th of August 1755, at Pondicherry.
Anquetil, La nativité, miracle extrait de la légende dorée, in Mem.
The historian Anquetil was one of the small number of literary men in France who refused to bow to the Napoleonic yoke.
Immense erudition and indomitable industry were joined in Anquetil du Perron to a pure love of truth and an excellent heart.
Twelve officers, amongst whom was Brigadier Anquetil, were killed.
The work of Anquetil was in their library; but the series of "do-nothing kings" amused them very little.
Anquetil du Perron, born at Paris in 1731, devoted himself early to the study of Oriental literature.