Léon Gautier

Léon Gautier

Émile Théodore Léon Gautier (8 August 1832 – 25 August 1897) was a French literary historian.

He was born at Le Havre, France. He was educated at the École des Chartes, and became successively head of the archives of the département of Haute-Marne (1856) and archivist at the Imperial Archives in Paris (1859). In 1874 he became a professor of palaeography at the École des Chartes. He was elected a member of the Academy of Inscriptions in 1887, and became chief of the historical section of the National Archives in 1893.[1]

Gautier rendered great services to the study of early French literature, the most important of his numerous works on medieval subjects being a critical text (Tours, 1872) with translation and introduction of the Chanson de Roland,[2] and Les Épopées françaises (3 volumes, 1866-1867; 2nd edition, 5 volumes, 1878-1897, including a Bibliographie des chansons de geste).

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References

  1. Emile-Théodore-Léon Gautier (1832-1897) Chiré (biography in French)
  2. La chanson de Roland HathiTrust Digital Library
  3. HathiTrust Digital Library Published works by Léon Gautier

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