Gaston Deschamps

Charles Pierre Gaston Napoléon Deschamps (5 January 1861 – 15 May 1931) was a French archaeologist, writer and journalist.

After he joined the École normale supérieure in 1882, Deschamps was appointed a member of the French School at Athens in 1885. He conducted archaeologic excavations in Amorgos, Chios and in Anatolia.

Selected publications 1896: Le Chemin fleuri, récit de voyages. Paris, Calmann-Lévy. 1892: La Grèce d’aujourd’hui, Paris, A. Colin, 1892. Work crowned by the Académie française. 1894: Sur les routes d’Asie, Paris, A. Colin. 1894–1900: La Vie et les livres, Paris, A. Colin et cie. 1899: Le Malaise de la démocratie, Paris, A. Colin. 1906: Le Rythme de la vie, Paris, A. Colin.