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See also:MOLINIER, AUGUSTE (1851-1904) , See also:French historian, was See also:born at See also:Toulouse on the 3oth of See also:September 1851. He was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil at the Ecole See also:des Chartes, which he See also:left in 1873, and also
at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes; and he obtained appointments in the public See also:libraries at the Mazarine (1878), at See also:Fontainebleau (1884), and at St See also:Genevieve, of which he was nominated librarian in 1885. He was a See also:good palaeographer and had a thorough knowledge of archives and See also:manuscripts; and he soon won a first See also:place among scholars of the See also:history of See also:medieval See also:France. His thesis on leaving the Ecole des Chartes was his See also:Catalogue des actes de See also:Simon et d'Amauri de See also:Montfort (inserted in vol. xxxiv. of the Bibliotheque de l'ecole, an important contribution to the history of the Albigenses. This marked him out as a capable editor for the new edition of L'histoire generale de See also:Languedoc by Dom Vaissete: he superintended the reprinting of the See also:text, adding notes on the feudal See also:administration of this See also:province from 900 to 1250, on the See also:government of See also:Alphonso of See also:Poitiers, See also:brother of St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis from 1226 to 1271, and on the See also:historical See also:geography of the province of Languedoc in the See also:middle ages. He also wrote a Bibliographie du Languedoc, which was awarded a See also:prize by the Academie des See also:inscriptions et belles-lettres, but remained in See also:manuscript. He also published several documents for the Societe de 1'0rient Latin (Itinera hierosolymitana, in collaboration with Ch. Kohler, 1885); for the Societe de 1'Histoire de France (Chronique normande du xive siecle, assisted by his brother Emile, 1883); for the Collection de textes relatifs
l'enseignement de l'histoire (See also:Vie de Louis le See also:Gros, by See also:Suger, 1887); for the Collection des documents inedits (Correspondance administrative d'Alfonse de Poitiers, 1894-1900); for the Recueil des historiens de la France (Obituaires de la province de See also:Sens 1904, 1906), &c., and several volumes in the Recueil des catalogues des bibliotheques publiques de France. Applying to the French See also:classics the rigorous method used with regard to the texts of the middle ages, he published the Pensees of See also:Pascal, revised with the See also:original manuscript (1887-1889), and the Provinciales (1891), edited with notes. In 1893 he was nominated See also:professor at the Ecole des Chartes, and gave a successful See also:series of lectures which he published (See also:Manuel des See also:sources de l'histoire de France au moyen See also:age, 1902-1906). He also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes. He died on the 19th of May 1904, after a See also:short illness, leaving in manuscript a See also:criticism on the sources of the See also:Speculum historicle of See also:Vincent de See also:Beauvais.
His See also:elder brother, See also:CHARLES (b. 1843), is also of some importance as an historian, particularly on the history of See also:art and on the heresies of the middle ages. He was appointed professor of history at the university of Toulouse in 1886.
A younger brother, EMILE (1857-1906), became an assistant in the See also:print-See also:room at the Bibliotheque Nationale, and afterwards joined the See also:staff at the Musee du Louvre, of which he eventually became keeper, retiring in 1902. He was a well-known connoisseur of art. He organized the famous Exposition Retrospective held at the See also:Petit Palais in 1900, and published a number of See also:expert volumes on enamels, See also:ceramics and See also:furniture.
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