During the
French Revolution he was imprisoned in 1793 as a result of his campaigns against
Jacobins in the
Chronique de Paris, which he edited. At the end of a year's term, he was freed following the
Thermidorian Reaction, to teach archeology at the nationalised royal library, reestablished as the
Bibliothèque nationale; there he also served as
conservateur-professeur in the department of antiquities and in 1799-1800 as president of the Conservatoire de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. As a naturalist he joined
Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet (1761–1807) and
Louis-Augustin Bosc d'Antic (1759–1828) to form the first
Linnean society in the world, the
Société linnéenne de Paris. His ''Éléments d'Histoire naturelle'' (1797) formed part of the curriculum of the
École centrale Paris. At the same time he was known for the many articles he published on
Greek vases. In 1806, appeared his
Dictionnaire des Beaux-Arts. From 1807 to 1811, appeared the four volumes of his
Voyage dans les départemens du Midi de la France, accompanied by an atlas. In 1811 he travelled in Italy and Sicily, and afterwards published designs of the mosaic paving in the cathedrals of
Apulia. Millin de Grandmaison was the director of the
Magasin encyclopédique and participated in other scientific reviews and belonged to numerous scientific societies. He translated numerous accounts of voyages, edited two dissertations of
Carl von Linné for the Société philomathique de Paris and one by
Johan Christian Fabricius (1745–1808). He carried on an important correspondence with the German archaeologist
Karl August Böttiger. In 1817, he was a founder of the
Annales encyclopédiques. Millin de Grandmaison was born and died in Paris. == Notes ==