Jean Germain Desire Armengaud, a French art historian, born at Castres, department of Tarn, in 1797, died at Passy, near Paris, in March, 1869. He is the author of Histoire des pein-tres de toutes les ecoles depuis la renaissance jusqu'd nos jours (1849, completed by Charles Blanc), Les galeries publiques de l'Europe (1856), Les chefs d'œuvres de l'art chretien (1858), Les tresors de Vart (1859), Le Parthenon de l'histoire (1863-'4), and other illustrated works.