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GACHARD, LOUIS PROSPER (1800-1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 382 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GACHARD, See also:LOUIS PROSPER (1800-1885) , Belgian See also:man of letters, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 12th of See also:March i800. He entered the See also:administration of the royal archives in 1826, and was appointed director-See also:general, a See also:post which he held for fifty-five years. During this See also:long See also:period he reorganized the service, added to the records by copies taken in other See also:European collections, travelled for purposes of study, and carried on a wide See also:correspondence with other keepers of records, and with See also:historical scholars. He also edited and published many valuable collections of See also:state papers; a full See also:list of his various publications was printed in the Annuaire de l'academie royale de Belgique by Ch. Piot in 1888, pp. 220-236. It includes 246 entries. He was the author of several historical writings, of which the best known are See also:Don See also:Carlos et Philippe II (1867), Etudes et notices historiques concernant l'histoire See also:des Pays-Bas (1863), Histoire de la Belgique au commencement du X VIII° siecle (188o), Histoire politique et diplomatique de P. P. See also:Rubens (1897), all published at See also:Brussels. His See also:chief editorial See also:works are the Actes des 'tats generaux des Pays-Bas 1S76-1585 (Brussels, 1861-1866), Collection de documents inedits concernant l'histoirede la Belgique (Brussels, 1833-1835), and the Relations des ambassadeurs Venitiens sur Chafles V et Philippe II (Brussels, 1855). Gachard died in Brussels on the 24th of See also:December 1885.

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