Louis Saltet (1870 – 1952) was a French

Benedictine The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (, abbreviated as O.S.B. or OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict. Initiated in 529, th ...

ecclesiastical historian. He taught at

Catholic University of Toulouse The Institut Catholique de Toulouse (or ICT) is a Catholic establishment of higher education in Toulouse, France. The Catholic Institute of Toulouse (ICT) is a private institution of higher education including the humanities and social sciences, l ...

, and published a long series of articles in the ''Bulletin de Littérature ecclésiastique de l'Institut Catholique de Toulouse''. He spectacularly exposed forgeries made by

Adémar de Chabannes Adémar de Chabannes (988/989 – 1034; also Adhémar de Chabannes) was a French/Frankish monk, active as a composer, scribe, historian, poet, grammarian and forgery, literary forger. He was associated with the Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges, w ...

in the eleventh century. This work by Saltet was completed by 1930, but its wide acceptance was delayed by a generation or even two.John Williams (1992), in The Codex Calixtinus and the Shrine of St. James, p. 234. Confirmation as a technical historical matter is treated in

Richard Landes Richard Allen Landes (born 1949) is an American historian and author who specializes in medieval millennial thinking. Until 2015 he taught at Boston University, and then began working at Bar-Ilan University. Biography Landes is the son of Harva ...

, ''Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History: Ademar of Chabannes, 989-1034'' (Harvard Historical Studies, 1998).

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1870 births 1952 deaths French Benedictines 20th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers {{France-historian-stub