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GAILLARD, GABRIEL HENRI (1726-1806)

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GAILLARD, See also:GABRIEL See also:HENRI (1726-1806) , See also:French historian, was See also:born at Ostel, See also:Picardy, in 1726. He was educated for the See also:bar, but after See also:finishing his studies adopted a See also:literary career, ultimately devoting his See also:chief See also:attention to See also:history. He was already a member of the See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions and Belles-lettres (176o), when, after the publication of the three first ' volumes of his Histoire de la rivalite de la See also:France et d'Angleterre, he was elected to the French Academy (1771); and when See also:Napoleon created the See also:Institute he was admitted into its third class (Academie franraise) in 1803. For See also:forty years he was the intimate friend of See also:Malesherbes, whose See also:life (1805) he wrote. He died at St Firmin, near See also:Chantilly, on the 13th of See also:February 1806; Gaillard is painstaking and impartial in his statement of facts, and his See also:style is correct and elegant, but the unity of his narrative is somewhat destroyed by digressions, and by his method of treating See also:war, politics, See also:civil See also:administration, and ecclesiastical affairs under See also:separate heads. His most important See also:work is his Histoire de la rivalite de la France et de l'Angleterre (in ri vols., 1771-1777); and among his other See also:works may be mentioned Essai de rhetorique francaise, d l'usage See also:des jeunes demoiselles (1745), often reprinted, and in 1822 with a life of the author; Histoire de See also:Marie de Bourgogne (1757) ; Histoire de See also:Francois I" (7 vols., 1776-1779); Histoire des grandes querelles entre See also:Charles V. et Francois Ie' (2 vols., 1777); Histoire de See also:Charlemagne (2 vols., 1782); Histoire de la rivalite de la France et de l'Espagne (8 vols., 18o1); Dictionnaire historique (6 vols., 1789-1804), making See also:part of the Encyclopedie methodique; and Melanges litteraires, containing 'loges on Charles V., See also:Henry IV., See also:Descartes, See also:Corneille, La See also:Fontaine, Malesherbes and others.

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