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MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

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MEYER, [See also:MARIE] See also:PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- ) , See also:French philologist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 17th of See also:January 1840. He was educated at the ?cote See also:des Chartes, and in 1863 was attached to the See also:manuscript See also:department of the Bibliotheque Nationale. In 1876 he became See also:professor of the See also:languages and literatures of See also:southern See also:Europe at the See also:College de See also:France. In 1882 he was made director of the ficole des Chartes, and a See also:year later was nominated' a member of the See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions. He was one of the founders of the Revue critique, arid a founder and the See also:chief contributor to Romania (1872). Paul Meyer began with the study of old Provencal literature, but subsequently did valuable See also:work in many different departments of See also:romance literature, and ranks as the chief See also:modern authority on the French See also:language. He is the author of See also:Rap ports sur See also:les documents manuscrits de l'ancienne litterature de la France conserves clans les bibliotheques de la Grande Bretagne (1871); Recueil d'anciens textes bas-latins, provencaux et See also:francais (2 parts, 1874-1876); See also:Alexandre le See also:Grand clans la litterature francaise du moyen See also:age (2 vols., 1886). He edited a See also:great number of old French texts for the Societe des anciens textes francais, the Societe de l'histoire de France and independently. Among these may be mentioned Aye d'See also:Avignon (1861), with Guessard; Flamenca (*_865); the Histoire of See also:Guillaume le Marechal (3 vols., 1892-1902); Raoul de See also:Cambrai (1882), with A. Longnon; Fragments d'une See also:vie da See also:Saint See also:Thomas de Cantorbery (1885); Guillaume de la See also:Barre (1894).

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