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MONOD, GABRIEL (1844– )

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MONOD, See also:GABRIEL (1844– ) , See also:French historian, was See also:born at See also:Havre on the 7th of See also:March, 1844. Adolphe Monod (q.v.) was his See also:uncle. Having studied at Havre, he went to See also:Paris to See also:complete his See also:education, and whilst there lived with the See also:family of De See also:Pressense. The See also:influence of Edmond de Pressense, a pastor and large-minded theologian, and of Madame de Pressense, a woman of See also:superior See also:intellect and refined feeling, who devoted her See also:life to educational See also:works and charity, made a See also:great impression on him. In 1865 he See also:left the ecole normale superieure, and went to See also:Germany, where he studied at See also:Gottingen and See also:Berlin. The teaching of See also:George See also:Waitz definitely directed his studies towards the See also:history of the See also:middle ages. Returning to See also:France in 1868 he was nominated by V. See also:Duruy to give lectures on history, following the method used in See also:German seminaries, at the ecole See also:des hautes etudes. When the Franco-Prussian See also:War See also:broke out, Gabriel Monod, with his See also:cousins, See also:Alfred and Sarah Monod, organized an See also:ambulance with which he followed the whole See also:campaign, from See also:Sedan to Mans. He wrote a small See also:book of See also:memoirs of this campaign, Allemands et See also:francais (1871), in which he spoke of the conquerors without bitterness; this attitude was all the more praiseworthy as his See also:mother was an Alsatian, and he was unable to resign himself to the loss of See also:Alsace and See also:Lorraine. The war being over he returned to teaching. At this See also:period of his life he wrote See also:Gregoire de See also:Tours et See also:Marius d'Avenche (1872); Fredegaire, whose history, taken from See also:original See also:MSS., he published in 1885; a See also:translation of a book of W.

Junghans, Histoire critique des regnes de Childerich et de Chlodovech, with introduction and notes (1879); Etudes critiques sur See also:

les See also:sources de t'histoire carolingienne (1898, 1st See also:part only published); and Bibliographic de l'histoire de France (1888). He himself said that his pupils were his best books; he intended to See also:teach them not so much new facts as the way to study, endeavouring to develop in them an See also:idea of See also:criticism and truth. They showed their gratitude by dedicating a book to him in 1896, Etudes d'histoire du moyen dge, and after his retirement in 1go5 by having his features engraved on a slab (see to Gabriel Monod, en souvenir de son enseignement: ecole pratique des hautes etudes, 1868–1905, ecole normale superieure, 1880–1904. May 26, 1607). In 1875 he founded the Revue Historique, which rapidly became a great authority on scientific education. Some of his articles in this and other See also:periodicals have been put together in book See also:form, Les Maitres de l'histoire: See also:Renan, See also:Taine, See also:Michelet (1894); Portraits et souvenirs (1897: on See also:Hugo, See also:Fust& de Coulanges, V. Duruy, &c.).

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