Charles Marie Adolphe Louis Bayet (25 May 1849, Liège – 16 September 1918,

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) was a French historian, who was a specialist in

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Biography

From 1868 he studied at the

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, then enlisted for military service during the Franco-Prussian War. In late September 1871 he obtained French citizenship. After spending time studying in

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, he became a member of the

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(1873). During the following year, with Louis Duchesne, he participated in a research expedition to Mount Athos.Bayet, Charles
IRHiS From 1881 to 1890 he was a professor of history and antiquities of the

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at the Faculty of Letters in

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. Within this time frame, he also became a professor of general

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at the École des Beaux Arts de Lyon (from 1886). In 1890 he was appointed

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at the Academy of Lille. From 1896 he served as director of primary schooling at the Ministry of Education, and several years later, became director of higher education (1902). Despite being in his mid-60s, he volunteered for military duty at the outbreak of war in 1914 – he succumbed to illness while serving as a lieutenant at the Macedonian front and was compelled to return to France.

Published works

In 1883 he published ''L'art byzantin'', a comprehensive work on

that involved its palaces, churches, paintings, enamels, ceramics, and mosaics. * ''Les élections pontificales sous les Carolingiens : VIIIe et IXe siècle'', 1883 – Papal elections under the Carolingians: eighth and ninth century. * ''L'art byzantin'', 1883 – Byzantine art. * ''Les derniers Carolingiens 877-987 : extrait des annales de Saint Bertin, d'Abbo, de Flodoard, de Richard''. L'histoire de France racontée par les contemporains, 1884 – The last Carolingians, 877 to 987. * ''Précis d'histoire de l'art'', 1886 – Synoptic history of art. * ''Le Christianisme, les Barbares, Mérovingiens et Carolingiens'', T. 2,1 (1903); with

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and Arthur Kleinclausz. (

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, the barbarians,

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s and Carolingians). part of series: ''Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'à la révolution'', a project headed by

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. * ''Giotto'', 1904 –

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.BAYET Marie Adolphe, Louis Charles
Sociétés savantes de France

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bayet, Charles 1849 births 1918 deaths Writers from Liège École Normale Supérieure alumni Academic staff of the University of Lyon French art historians 19th-century French historians 20th-century French historians French military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War French military personnel killed in World War I Members of the French School at Athens French hellenists French Byzantinists