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GAUTIER, EMILE THEODORE LEON (1832-1897)

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GAUTIER, EMILE See also:THEODORE See also:LEON (1832-1897) , See also:French See also:literary historian, was See also:born at See also:Havre on the 8th of See also:August 1832. He was educated at the Ecole See also:des Chartes, and became successively keeper of the archives of the See also:department of Haute-See also:Marne and of the imperial archives at See also:Paris under the See also:empire. In 1871 he became See also:professor of See also:palaeography at the Ecole des Chartes. He was elected member of the See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions in 1887, and became See also:chief of the See also:historical See also:section of the See also:national archives in 1893. Leon Gautier rendered See also:great services to the study of See also:early French literature, the most important of his numerous See also:works on See also:medieval subjects being a See also:critical See also:text (See also:Tours, 1872) with See also:translation and introduction of the Chanson de See also:Roland, and See also:Les Epopees frangaises (3 vols., 1866-1867; 2nd ed., 5 vols., 1878-1897, including a Bibliographie des chansons de geste). He died in Paris on the 25th of August 1897.

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