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middle ages, and to this period were devoted the two theses which he composed for his doctorate in letters, De byzantino hippodromo et circensibus factionibus (revised in French for the Revue des Deux Mondes, under the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of " Le monde byzantin; le See also:

SPORT (a contracted or shortened form of "disport," to amuse, divert oneself, O. Fr. se dis porter or deporter, to leave off work, hence to play, Lat. dis-, away, and portare, to carry; the origin of the meaning lies in the notion of turning away from ser

sport et 1'See also:

HIPPODROME (Gr. irrbSpo,uos, from irros, horse, and Spoµos, racecourse)

hippodrome," 1871), and L'See also:

EMPIRE

Empire grec au X° siecle, Constantin Porphyrogenete (1870). This latter See also:

WORK

work is still accepted as a See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good authority, and caused Rambaud to be hailed as a See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master on the Byzantine period; but with the exception of one See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article on Digenis Akritas, in the Revue des Deux Mondes (1875), and one other on See also:

Michael Psellos, in the Revue historique (vol. iii., 1876), Rambaud's researches were diverted towards other parts of the See also:

East: The Franco-See also:

German See also:

War inspired him with the See also:

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea for some courses of lectures which See also:

DEVELOPED

developed into books: La domination francaise en Allemagne; See also:

les See also:

FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

Francais sur le Rhin, 1792—1804 (1873) and L'Allemagne sous See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon I. 1804—1811 (1874). He watched attentively the role played by See also:

Russia, and soon observed how much to the See also:

INTEREST

interest of France, a good entente with this See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power would be. He accordingly threw himself into the study of See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

HISTORY

history, staying in Russia in See also:

order to learn its See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, institutions and customs. On his return, he published La Russie epique, a study of the heroic songs (1876), a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short but excellent Histoire de la Russie depuis les origines jusqu'd l'annee 1877 (1878; 5th ed., 19oo), Francais et Russes, Moscou et See also:

SEVASTOPOL, or SEBASTOPOL

Sevastopol 1812—1854 (1876; 2nd ed., 1881), and finally the two important volumes on Russian See also:

DIPLOMATIC

diplomatic history in the Recueil des Instructions donnees aux ambassadeurs (vols. vii. and ix., 1890 and 1891). He was not improbably moved by considerations of See also:

FOREIGN

foreign policy to publish his Russes et Prussiens, guerre de See also:

SEPT

Sept Ans (1895), a popular work, though based on solid See also:

RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research. After teaching history in the Faculties of Arts at See also:

CAEN

Caen (1871) and See also:

NANCY

Nancy (1873), he was called to the See also:

SORBONNE

Sorbonne (1883), where he was the first to occupy the See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of contemporary history.

By this time he had already entered into politics; he had been chef du See also:

CABINET

cabinet of Jules See also:

Ferry (1879—1881), though this did not distract him from his See also:

LITERARY

literary work. It was under these conditions that he composed his Histoire de la civilisation francaise (2 vols., 1885, 1887; 9th ed., 1901) and his Histoire de la civilisation contemporaine en France (1888; new ed. entirely revised, 1906), and undertook the See also:

general editorship of the Histoire generale du IV' siecle jusqu'd nos jours. The plan of this See also:

GREAT

great work had been See also:

DRAWN

drawn up with the aid of Ernest Lavisse, but the entire supervision of its See also:

EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution was carried out by Rambaud. He contributed to it himself some interesting chapters on the history of the East, of which he had a thorough knowledge. In 1885 Rambaud published, in collaboration with J. B. Baille, a French See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of J. R. See also:

Seeley's Expansion of See also:

England, and in the See also:

PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface he laid great emphasis on the enormous increase of power brought to England by the See also:

possession of her colonies, seeing in this a See also:

LESSON (through Fr. lecon from Lat. lectio, reading; legere, to read)

lesson for France. He was anxious to see the rise of a "Greater France," on the See also:

MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model of " Greater See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain," and it was with this idea that he undertook' to See also:

PRESENT

present to the public a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of essays, written by famous explorers or See also:

POLITICAL

political men, under the title of La France coloniale, histoire, geographie, See also:

commerce (1886; 6th ed., 1893). Having become senator for the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

DOUBS

Doubs (1895-1902), Rambaud held the position of See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of Public Instruction from 1896 to 1898, and in that capacity endeavoured to carry on the educational work of Jules Ferry, to whose memory he always remained faithful. He dedicated to his former See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief a See also:

BOOK

book (Jules Ferry, 1903), which is a valuable testimony to the efforts made by France to organize public education and found a colonial empire; but this fidelity also won him some enemies, who succeeded for some time in pre-venting him from becoming a member of the See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute.

He was finally elected a member of the See also:

ACADEMIC

Academic des Sciences morales et politiques on the Ilth of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1897, in See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of the duc d'See also:

Aumale, of whose See also:

LIFE

life he wrote an See also:

account (vol. xxii., and series, of the Memoires of this See also:

academy). His many interests ended by wearing out even his robust constitution, and he died at Paris on the loth of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1905. See the notices by Ernest Lavisse in the Revue de Paris for See also:

JANUARY

January 15th, 1906, and Gabriel Monod in the Revue historique (vol. xc., pp. 344-348).

End of Article: RAMBAUD, ALFRED NICOLAS (1842-1905)

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