Arthur Martin Dinaux (8 September 1795 – 15 May 1864) was a French journalist and antiquarian. Dinaux was born in

Valenciennes Valenciennes (, also , , ; ; or ; ) is a communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department, Hauts-de-France, France. It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced ...

. In 1822 he proposed excavation at the village of Famars, resulting in the discovery of over 30,000 Roman silver medals.

Works

* ''Les trouvères cambrésiens'', 1836. * ''Les trouvères de la Flandre et du Tournaisis'', 1839. * ''Les trouvères artésiens'', 1843. * ''Les trouvères : brabançons, hainuyers, liégeois et namurois'', 1863. * ''Les sociétés badines, bachiques, littéraires et chantantes, leur histoire et leurs travaux'', ed. by Pierre Gustave Brunet, 1867.

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1795 births 1864 deaths People from Valenciennes 19th-century French journalists 19th-century French historians Corresponding members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres French antiquarians French male non-fiction writers {{France-historian-stub