Finally, in a memoir sent to the French Academy of Sciences in 1767 Gaston-Laurent Coeurdoux, a French Jesuit who spent all his life in India, had specifically demonstrated the existing analogy between Sanskrit and European languages. ###>En fait Gaston-Laurent Cœurdoux, jésuite français qui passa toute sa vie en Inde, fut le premier à suggérer l'idée de la famille des langues indo-européennes .