Anatole de Courde de Montaiglon (28 November 1824 – 1 September 1895) was a 19th-century French
librarian
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and
art historian
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.
Biography
In 1850, De Montaignon graduated as an
archivist
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and
palaeographer
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from the
École des chartes
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
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, with a
thesis
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entitled ''Essai de dictionnaire des anciens peintres français pendant le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance''. He began his career as attached to the
Louvre
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and the
Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal
The Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal (''Library of the Arsenal'', founded 1757) in Paris has been part of the Bibliothèque nationale de France since 1934.
History
The collections of the library originated with the private library of Marc-René, 3rd ...
and in 1864 became secretary of the École des Chartes, with a position of substitute teacher. In 1868, at the death of
Auguste Vallet de Viriville
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He received his education at the École des Chartes in Paris, obtaining his degree ...
[Oraisons funèbres](_blank)
by Paul Meyer, directeur de l'École des chartes, Arthur Giry, président de la Société de l'École des chartes et Ulysse Robert, président de la Société des antiquaires de France the post of professor in full at the chair of bibliography and classification of archives and libraries.
His work is very diverse even as regretted
Paul Meyer in his funeral oration, somewhat scattered: the printed bibliography of his work that was offered by friends report to nearly 700 numbers. His work generally related to the art history and particularly the history of literature. He was particularly a specialist in the poetry of the fifteenth, to which he devoted many studies and of which he gave important scientific or popular editions (''Dolopathos'', the ''
Livre du chevalier de La Tour-Landry'', the very large ''Recueil de poésies françoises des XVe XVIe'' (the nine first volumes alone, the next four with
James Mayer de Rothschild
James Mayer de Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild (born Jakob Mayer Rothschild; 15 May 1792 – 15 November 1868) was a German- French banker and the founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family.
Early life
James de Rothschild was bo ...
), etc.)
Very involved in scholarly and intellectual life of the second half of the nineteenth, he was a member of the
Comité des travaux historiques, president of the "Société de l'histoire de l'art français", and a member of the
Société des Antiquaires de France
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.
On his grave at
cimetière du Père-Lachaise,
[(25th division)] his friends erected a monument with his funeral mask by
Sicard.
Publications
* ''Recueil de poésies françaises des XVe et XVIe siècles. Morales, facétieuses, historiques'', tome 1, chez P. Jannet libraire, Paris, 185
(''lire en ligne'')* ''Recueil de poésies françaises des XVe et XVIe siècles. Morales, facétieuses, historiques'', tome 2, chez P. Jannet libraire, Paris, 185
(''lire en ligne'')* ''Recueil de poésies françaises des XVe et XVIe siècles. Morales, facétieuses, historiques'', tome 3, chez P. Jannet libraire, Paris, 185
(''read online'')* ''Recueil de poésies françaises des XVe et XVIe siècles. Morales, facétieuses, historiques'', tome 4, chez P. Jannet libraire, Paris, 185
(''read online'')* ''Recueil de poésies françaises des XVe et XVIe siècles. Morales, facétieuses, historiques'', tome 5, chez P. Jannet libraire, Paris, 185
(''read online'')* ''Recueil de poésies françaises des XVe et XVIe siècles. Morales, facétieuses, historiques'', tome 6, chez P. Jannet libraire, Paris, 185
(''read online'')* ''Recueil de poésies françaises des XVe et XVIe siècles. Morales, facétieuses, historiques'', tome 7, chez P. Jannet libraire, Paris, 185
(''read online'')* ''Recueil de poésies françaises des XVe et XVIe siècles. Morales, facétieuses, historiques'', tome 8, chez P. Jannet libraire, Paris, 185
(''read online'')* ''Recueil de poésies françaises des XVe et XVIe siècles. Morales, facétieuses, historiques'', tome 9, Librairie A. France, Paris, 186
(''read online'')* ''Recueil de poésies françaises des XVe et XVIe siècles. Morales, facétieuses, historiques'', tome 10, Paul Daffis éditeur-propriétaire, Paris, 187
(''read online'')* ''Recueil de poésies françaises des XVe et XVIe siècles. Morales, facétieuses, historiques'', tome 11, Paul Daffis éditeur-propriétaire, Paris, 187
(''read online'')* ''Recueil de poésies françaises des XVe et XVIe siècles. Morales, facétieuses, historiques'', tome 12, Paul Daffis éditeur-propriétaire, Paris, 187
(''read online'')* ''Recueil de poésies françaises des XVe et XVIe siècles. Morales, facétieuses, historiques'', tome 13, Paul Daffis éditeur-propriétaire, Paris, 187
(''read online'')* Sonnets tourangeaux, Imprimerie Ernest Mazereau, Tours, 188
("read online" BU Clermont Auvergne)* Les sonnets de la chaise, Imprimerie Ernest Mazereau, Tours, 188
("read online" BU Clermont Auvergne)
References
Bibliography
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Jules Guiffrey
Jules-Joseph Guiffrey (29 November 1840 – 26 November 1918) was a 19th-century French art historian, a member of the Académie des beaux-arts.
Career
While studying law (he was graduated in 1861Sophie Mouquin, ÂJules Guiffrey », ''Dictionnai ...
, ''Anatole de Courde de Montaiglon, 1824-1895, Notice biographique'', Paris, 189
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External links
Anatole de Montaiglonon Wikisource
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French librarians
French bibliographers
French art historians
French medievalists
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
École Nationale des Chartes alumni
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
1824 births
Writers from Paris
1895 deaths