Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy was a French orientalist. Wikipedia
Born: January 25, 1794, Marseille, France
Died: September 2, 1878 (age 84 years), Marseille, France
Books: A dictionary persian arabic and english by Francis Johnson: London, 1852, gr. 4 ?? (IV, 1420 pp.) (Extr. no 7, 1853, du j. asiatique), ... Salâmân o Absâl, an allegorical romance being one of the seven Poems entitled The Haft aurang, of Mullâ Jâmî Dschami, now first edited ... by Forbes Falconer: London 1850 ?? 92 S. (Recausion) (Journ. as. Extr. no 18, 1850), and Muslim Festivals in India and Other Essays