Claim: Anatole Bailly born 1833 was interested in history, authored many textbooks and joined Orleans scholarly societies.
Evidence: Anatole Bailly (French: [bɑji; Orléans, 16 December 1833 – 12 December 1911, Orléans) was a French Hellenist, author of the famous Dictionnaire grec-français (Greek-French Dictionary), published in 1895. He was equally interested in history and wrote many biographical accounts of overlooked people from Orleans. A competent and conscientious, but very modest, professor, Bailly authored numerous textbooks, grammars and dictionaries of Greek and Latin which were popular in French schools at the end of the 19th century. He became a member of Orleans scholarly societies of Orleans: the Société d'Agriculture, Sciences, Belles-lettres et Arts d'Orléans and the Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais.