was born in 1939. A student of grammar who graduated in the field of Serbo-Croat languages taught classical linguistics at the University of Rouen from 1967 to 2004. He published more than one hundred articles on morphology, syntax, the lexicon of classical languages (Latin, Greek and Sanskrit) and on Caucasian linguistics. Twenty eight of his articles, rewritten and completed, were brought together in Words and Myths in 2008. Several other books published by Christol are devoted to Latin and to Greek such as Homonymy in Latin and Greek lexicons and The Latin of the cooks: vegetable nutrition, lexical study. The latter addresses the Latin lexicon of cooking, which he reconstructed from two collections of recipes, transmitted under the name of Apicius, a famous gastronome of the time of Augustus, although these texts were written between fourth and seventh centuries and in a language that departs from the classical norm.