REMY, St in the College of France was conferred upon him. Not long afterwards he was entrusted with the cataloguing of all the Chinese works in the royal library. In 1818 he was elected to succeed Visconti in the editorship of the Journal des Savants. In 1824 he was appointed keeper of the oriental manuscripts in the royal library. There was in fact almost no end to the snug posts and lucrative sinecures which he obtained. Nor did the revolution of 1830 interrupt the flow of his prosperity. He managed to remain in possession of all his salaries until his death on the 3d of June 1832. Rémusat was a member of the Asiatic Societies of London and Calcutta, and of many other learned bodies.
His principal works are,—Pan d'un Dictionnaire Chinois, 8vo, 1814; Le Livre des Récompenses et des Peines, translated from the Chinese, in 8vo, 1816; Mémoire sur les Livres Chinois de la Bibliothèque du Roi, in 8vo, 1818; Description du Royaume de Camboje, from the Chinese, in 8vo, 1819; Mémoires et Anecdotes sur la Dynastie des Djogours Souverains du Japon, in 8vo, 1820; Histoire de la Ville de Khotan, from the Chinese, in 8vo, 1820; Recherches sur les Langues Tartares, in 4to, 1820; Éléments de la Grammaire Chinoise, in 8vo, 1822; Deux Mémoires sur les Relations Politiques des Premiers Chrétiens, et particulièrement des Rois de France, avec les Empereurs Mongols, in 4to, 1822-24; Mémoire sur la Vie et les Opinions de Lao-Tseu, Philosophophe Chinois, in 4to, 1823; Recherches Chronologiques sur l'Origine de la Hiérarchie Lamaïque, in 4to, 1824; and Mémoire sur Plusieurs Questions Relatives à la Géographie de l'Asie Centrale, in 4to, 1825. The numerous papers which he communicated to several scientific journals, and to the Biographie Universelle, were published under the titles of Mélanges Asiatiques, in 2 vols. 8vo, 1825-26; Nouveau Mélanges Asiatiques, in 2 vols. 8vo, 1829; and Mélanges Festschuet d'Histoire et de Littérature Orientale, in 8vo, 1843.