Remus
the twin brother of Romulus, who was the fabled founder of Rome.
According to the old myth, Romulus killed his brother.
RÉMUSAT, FRANÇOIS MARIE CHARLES, COMTE DE, a French au thor; born in Paris, March 14, 1797, the son of Augustin Laurent, Comte de Rémusat (1762-1823). Rémusat early developed Liberal ideas, and took eagerly to journalism. He signed the journalists' famous protest against the Ordi nances of Polignac, which brought about the "July revolution," and was elected deputy for Toulouse; allied himself with the Doctrinaire party, and in 1836 became under-secretary of state for the interior; in 1840 minister of the interior, he was exiled after the coup d'état of Louis Napoleon. In 1871, he held the portfolio of foreign affairs. He died June 6, 1875.
RÉMUSAT, JEAN PIERRE ABEL (rā-mü-sä), a French Orientalist; born in Paris, Sept. 5, 1788. He studied medicine, and took his diploma in 1813; but as early as 1811 he had published an essay on Chinese literature. In 1814 he was made Professor of Chinese in the College of France. His most important work was "Elements of Chinese Gram- RENAISSANCE mar" (1822). He wrote also on the ori- gin of Chinese writing (1827), on Chinese medicine, on the topography and history of the Chinese empire, and "Asiatic Miscellanies" (1843). In 1818 he became one of the editors of the "Journal des Savants"; in 1822 he found- ed the Asiatic Society of Paris; and in 1824 he was appointed curator of the Oriental Department in the Royal Library. He died in Paris June 3, 1832.