Arthur Dinaux

{{Short description|French journalist and antiquarian (1795–1864)}}

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Arthur Martin Dinaux (8 September 1795 – 15 May 1864) was a French journalist and antiquarian.

Dinaux was born in Valenciennes. In 1822 he proposed excavation at the village of Famars, resulting in the discovery of over 30,000 Roman silver medals.{{cite book|author=Ferdinand Nathanael Staaff|title=La Littérature Française depuis la formation de la langue jusqu'à nos Jours|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y7NLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA924|accessdate=13 May 2013|year=1870|publisher=Didier & Cie.|page=924}}

Works

  • Les trouvères cambrésiens, 1836.
  • Les trouvères de la Flandre et du Tournaisis, 1839.
  • Les trouvères artésiens, 1843.
  • Les trouvères : brabançons, hainuyers, liégeois et namurois, 1863.
  • Les sociétés badines, bachiques, littéraires et chantantes, leur histoire et leurs travaux, ed. by Pierre Gustave Brunet, 1867.

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