Auguste Digot (28 August 1815, Nancy – 29 May 1864, idem, aged 48) was a 19th-century French historian whose work was dedicated to the history of

Lorraine Lorraine, also , ; ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; ; ; is a cultural and historical region in Eastern France, now located in the administrative region of Grand Est. Its name stems from the medieval kingdom of ...

Works

A lawyer and member of the

Académie de Stanislas The Académie de Stanislas is a learned society founded in Nancy, France on 28 December 1750 by the King of Poland, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, Stanisław Leszczyński, under the name ''Société Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Nancy''. It ...

, Digot wrote several articles and books: *1847: ''Histoire de Neufchâteau'', (Reprint Ed. Lorisse, déc. 2004) 120 pages *1856: ''Histoire de la Lorraine'', in 6 volumes (more than 400 pages each) published by Vagner in Nancy - Reprint Ed. Lacour-Ollé, 2002 - *1860: Notice biographique et littéraire sur

Dom Augustin Calmet Antoine Augustin Calmet, (; 26 February 167225 October 1757), a French Benedictine abbot, was born at Ménil-la-Horgne, then in the Duchy of Bar, part of the Holy Roman Empire (now the French department of Meuse, located in the region of Lorr ...

*1863: ''Histoire du royaume d'Austrasie'' in 4 volumes (Vagner, Nancy) *1864: ''Mémoire sur les décorations des chapitres de Lorraine'', Lucien Wiener éditeur, Nancy, 41 p. + 4 pl.

Sources

* R. Limouzin-Lamothe, "Digot (Auguste)" in Dictionnaire de biographie française, vol. 11, Paris, 1967

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Digot, Auguste 19th-century French historians 19th-century French lawyers 1815 births Writers from Nancy, France 1864 deaths