Denis Jean Achille Luchaire (October 24, 1846November 14, 1908) was a French

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Biography

Luchaire was born in

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. In 1879 he became a professor at

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and in 1889 professor of mediaeval history at the

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; in 1895 he became a member of the

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, where he obtained the Jean Reynaud prize just before his death. His grandnephew was the French collaborationist

Jean Luchaire Jean Luchaire (21 July 1901 – 22 February 1946) was a French journalist and politician who became the head of the French collaborationist press in Paris during the German military occupation. Luchaire supported the ''Révolution nationale'' d ...

, during

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Works

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

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. 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 (; 17 December 184218 August 1922) was a French historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Biography He was born at Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, Aisne. In 1865 he obtained a fellowship in history, and ...

's ''Histoire de France''.

Assessment

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writes in ''Jesus or Christianity'' (1929):

References

External links

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Text of ''Études sur les idiomes pyrénéens de la région française'' (1879) (in French) at Archive.org
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