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Antoine Léandre Sardou

French philologist (1803–1894)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ2854178 ↗
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Antoine Léandre Sardou (1803–1894) was a French philologist, a member of the Société des lettres, sciences et arts des Alpes-Maritimes, and the father of dramatist Victorien Sardou.

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L'idiome niçois: ses origines, son passé, son état present (in French). Malvano. 1878. Retrieved 26 June 2025.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1803, 1894, 1878, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1803-01-19. The account is most persuasive where Antoine, Léandre and Sardou can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2854178. VIAF identifies the subject as 100269344. The Library of Congress control number is n85816629. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1803, 1894, 1878 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Antoine Léandre Sardou” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.