Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "France" to "Francis Joseph I.": Volume 10, Slice 8Various
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "France" to "Francis Joseph I.": Volume 10, Slice 8
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France_, which has appeared since 1885 under the direction of Robert
de Lasteyrie.
Individual scholars also associated themselves with this great
literary movement. Guizot published a _Collection de memoires relatifs
a l'histoire de France_ (31 vols., 1824-1835); Buchon, a _Collection
des chroniques nationales francaises ecrites en langue vulgaire du
XIII^e au XVI^e siecle_ (47 vols., 1824-1829), and a _Choix de
chroniques et memoires sur l'histoire de France_ (14 vols.,
1836-1841); Petitot and Monmerque, a _Collection de memoires relatifs
a l'histoire de France_ (131 vols., 1819-1829); Michaud and Poujoulat,
a _Nouvelle Collection de memoires pour servir a l'histoire de France_
(32 vols., 1836-1839); Barriere and de Lescure, a _Bibliotheque de
memoires relatifs a l'histoire de France pendant le XVIII^e siecle_
(30 vols., 1855-1875); and finally Berville and Barriere, a
_Collection des memoires relatifs a la Revolution Francaise_ (55
vols., 1820-1827). The details are to be found in the _Sources de
l'histoire de France_, by Alfred Franklin (1876). The abbe J.P. Migne
in his _Patrologia Latina_ (221 vols., 1844-1864), re-edited a number
cf texts anterior to the 13th century. Under the second empire, the
administration of the imperial archives at Paris published ten volumes
of documents (_Monuments historiques_, 1866; _Layettes du tresor des
chartes_, 1863, which were afterwards continued up to 1270; _Actes du
parlement de Paris_, 1863-1867), not to mention several volumes of
_Inventaires_. The administration of the Bibliotheque imperiale had
printed the _Catalogue general de l'histoire de France_ (10 vols.,
1855-1870; vol. xi., containing the alphabetical index to the names of
the authors, appeared in 1895). Other countries also supplied a number
of useful texts; there is much in the English Rolls series, in the
collection of _Chroniques belges_, and especially in the _Monumenta
Germaniae historica_.
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