Denis Jean Achille Luchaire
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France
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historian
Historian
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, was born in Paris
Paris
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.
In 1879 he became a professor at Bordeaux
University of Bordeaux
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and in 1889 professor of mediaeval history at the Sorbonne
University of Paris
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; in 1895 he became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, where he obtained the Jean Reynaud
Jean Reynaud
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prize just before his death.
The most important of Achille Luchaire's earlier works is his Histoire des institutions monarchiques de la France sous les premiers Capétiens (1883 and again 1891); he also wrote:
- Manuel des institutions françaises: période des Capétiens directs (1892)
- Louis VI le Gros, annales de sa vie et de son règne (1890)
- Étude sur les actes de Louis VII (1885).
His later writings deal mainly with the history of the papacy, and took the form of an elaborate work on Pope Innocent III
Pope Innocent III
Pope Innocent III was Pope from 8 January 1198 until his death. His birth name was Lotario dei Conti di Segni, sometimes anglicised to Lothar of Segni....
. This is divided into six parts:
- Rome et Italie (1904)
- La Croisade des Albigeois (1905)
- La Papauté et l'Empire (1905)
- La Question d'Orient (1906)
- Les Royautés vassales du Saint-Siège (1908)
- Le Concile de Latran et la réforme de l'Église (1908)
He wrote two of the earlier volumes of Ernest Lavisse
Ernest Lavisse
Ernest Lavisse was a French historian.- Biography :He was born at Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, Aisne.In 1865 he obtained a fellowship in history, and in 1875 became a doctor of letters; he was appointed maître de conférence at the École Normale Supérieure, succeeding Fustel de Coulanges, and then...
's Histoire de France.