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Desiré-Raoul Rochette (March 6, 1790–July 3, 1854), was a French archaeologist.
Born at St Amand in the department of Cher, Raoul Rochette received his education at Bourges. He was made professor of history in the College de Louis-leGrand at Paris in 1813 and in the Sorbonne in 1817. His first major work was Histoire critique de l'établissement des colonies grecques (4 vols., 1815).
He was superintendent of antiquities in the Bibliothque at Paris from 1819 to 1848, and professor of archaeology at the Bibliothque from 1826, a result of which may be seen in his Cours d'archologie (1828). In 1829 he published his Monuments inédits, with his Peintures inddites following in 1836 and his Peintures de Pompi in 1844. He contributed to the Annali of the Roman Institute, the Journal des savants and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
At his death on the 3rd of July 1854 Raoul Rochette was perpetual secretary of the Academy of Fine Arts and a corresponding member of most of the learned societies in Europe.