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Auguste Molinier (30 September 185119 May 1904) was a French historian.


Biography

Born in
Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...
, Auguste Molinier was a student at the
École Nationale des Chartes The École Nationale des Chartes (; ) is a French ''grande école'' and a constituent college of Université PSL, specialising in the auxiliary sciences of history, historical sciences. It was founded in 1821, and was located initially at the A ...
, which he left in 1873, and also at the
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; and he obtained appointments in the public libraries at the Mazarine (1878), at
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(1884), and at
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, of which he was nominated librarian in 1885. He was a good
palaeographer Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US) (ultimately from , , 'old', and , , 'to write') is the study and academic discipline of historical writing systems. It encompasses the historicity of manuscripts and texts, subsuming deciphering and dati ...
and had a thorough knowledge of archives and manuscripts; and he soon achieved a high reputation among scholars of the history of
medieval In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with the fall of the West ...
France. His thesis on leaving the École des Chartes was his ' (inserted in vol. xxxiv of the '), an important contribution to the history of the Albigenses. This marked him out as a capable editor for the new edition of ' by Dom Vaissète: he superintended the reprinting of the text, adding notes on the feudal administration of this province from 900 to 1250, on the government of Alphonse of Toulouse, brother of
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(1220–1271), and on the historical geography of the province of
Languedoc The Province of Languedoc (, , ; ) is a former province of France. Most of its territory is now contained in the modern-day region of Occitanie in Southern France. Its capital city was Toulouse. It had an area of approximately . History ...
in the Middle Ages. He also wrote a ', which was awarded a prize by the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres). History ...
, but remained in manuscript. He also published several documents for the Société de l'Orient Latin (', in collaboration with Carolus Kohler, 1885); for the
Société de l'Histoire de France The Société de l'histoire de France (SHF) ( English: ''Society of the History of France'') was established on 21 December 1833 at the instigation of the French minister of Public Instruction, François Guizot, in order to contribute to the renew ...
(', assisted by his brother Émile, 1883); for the (', by Suger, 1887); for the (', 1894–1900); for the Recueil des historiens de la France (' 1904, 1906), etc., and several volumes in the '. Applying to the French classics the rigorous method used with regard to the texts of the Middle Ages, he published the ''
Pensées The (''Thoughts'') is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the was in many ways his life's work. It repre ...
'' of Pascal, revised with the original manuscript (1887–1889), and the '' Provinciales'' (1891), edited with notes. In 1893 he was nominated professor at the , and gave a successful series of lectures which he published (', 1902–1906). He also taught at the . He died after a short illness, leaving in manuscript a criticism on the sources of the ' of Vincent de Beauvais. His elder brother, Charles (born 1843), is also of some importance as an historian, particularly on the history of art and on the heresies of the Middle Ages. He was appointed professor of history at the
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in 1886. A younger brother, Émile (1857–1906), was keeper at the
Musée du Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Rive Droite, Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arron ...
and a well-known connoisseur of art.


Works

* "Catalogue des actes de Simon et d'Amaury de Montfort" in ''Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes'', vol. 34 * ''Étude sur l'administration féodale dans le Languedoc (900-1250)'', 1878 * ''Les Pensées de Blaise Pascal. Texte revu sur le manuscrit autographe, avec une préface et des notes'', 1877–1879 * ''Itinera hierosolymitana et descriptiones terrae sanctae bellis sacris anteriora'' (ed. with Titus Tobler), 1879 * ''Inventaire sommaire de la collection Joly de Fleury'', 1881 * ''Chronique normande du XIVe siècle'', 1882, (ed. with Émile Molinier
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* ''Vie de Louis le Gros'' de Suger, suivie de lHistoire du roi Louis VII'', 1887 * ''Géographie historique de la province de Languedoc au Moyen Âge'', 1889 * ''Les Obituaires français au moyen âge'', 1890 * ''Les Provinciales de Blaise Pascal, avec une préface et des notes'' (2 vol.), 1891 * ''Les manuscrits et les miniatures'', 189
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* ''Correspondence administrative d'Alfonse de Poitiers'', 1894-190
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* ''Les sources de l'histoire de France (des origines aux guerres d'Italie, 1494)'', 1901–1906 * Collaboration on the catalogues of manuscripts of the libraries of Beaune, Toulouse, Dijon, Chartres, Cambrai, etc.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Molinier, Auguste 1851 births Writers from Toulouse 1904 deaths French archivists 19th-century French historians French librarians French medievalists École Nationale des Chartes alumni Academic staff of the École Nationale des Chartes