Gaston Raynaud (14 April 1850, Paris – 28 July 1911,

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) was a French philologist and librarian .Lelong Eugène
Gaston Raynaud (1850-1911)
In: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes. 1911, tome 72. pp. 427-436.

Biography

Raynaud entered the

École Nationale des Chartes The École Nationale des Chartes (, literally National School of Charters) is a French ''grande école'' and a constituent college of Université PSL, specialising in the historical sciences. It was founded in 1821, and was located initially at ...

in 1870. In 1875, he graduated as archivist-paleographer. The subject of his thesis was the study of the Picard dialect in

Ponthieu Ponthieu (, ) was one of six feudal counties that eventually merged to become part of the Province of Picardy, in northern France.Dunbabin.France in the Making. Ch.4. The Principalities 888-987 Its chief town is Abbeville. History Ponthieu play ...

in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This work was favorably viewed by his advisors

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and Paul Meyer, evaluating it as an excellent analysis of phonetic phenomena and grammatical rules. Published the following year in the ''

Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes The ''Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes'' is a journal dedicated to the study and use of medieval manuscripts. It was founded in 1839 and continues to provide bi-annual issues with articles and abstracts in French, English, and German. Star ...

'', the study on the dialect of Ponthieu earned Raynaud the fourth mention in the ''Antiquities of France'' competition at the

Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions ( epig ...

. The same year saw the related works of Léon Clédat's on

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and of Jacques Normand on a song of gesture, Aiol and Mirabel. Normand joined forces with Raynaud and Clédat for the overhaul of his thesis in ''Aoil: chanson de geste''.Normand, J., Raynaud, G., Normand, J. Clary Jean. (1877)
Aiol; chanson de geste
Paris: Firmin Didot et cie. He also collaborated with

Gaston Paris Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris (; 9 August 1839 – 5 March 1903) was a French literary historian, philologist, and scholar specialized in Romance studies and medieval French literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, 19 ...

on the work ''Mystère de la passion d'Arnould Gréban'' (1878), concerning the works of organist Arnoul Gréban.Gréban, A., Raynaud, G., Paris, G. Bruno Paulin. (1878)
Le mystère de la passion d'Arnould Greban
Paris: F. Vieweg. In 1876, Raynaud joined the department of manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale, remaining for nearly fourteen years. In 1889, he left the library to devote himself more freely to his favorite works. These included being administrator and the editor of the considerable work of the fourteenth century poet

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. In 1882, he collaborated with Henri-Victor Michelant on the ''Itinéraires à Jérusalem et descriptions de la Terre Sainte, rédigés en français aux XIe, XIIe tXIIIe siècles''; in 1887, '' Les Gestes des Chiprois'', a collection of French chronicles written in the East in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the work of Gérard de Montréal and Philippe de Navarre.

Publications

Selected publications of Gaston Raynaud include the following. * ''Étude sur le dialecte picard dans le Ponthieu, d'après les chartes des xiii et xiv siècles (1254–1333)'' (1876). Paris, 123 pages. Published in ''

.'' *''Recueil général et complet des fabliaux des XIIIe et XIVe siècles'' (1872–1890). With

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. *''Aiol, chanson de geste'', publiée d'après le manuscrit unique de Paris (1877). *''Notice sur René Macé et ses œuvres'' (1878) Paris. *''Le Mystère de la Passion, d'Arnoul Greban'' (1878), Paris. With

. *''Inventaire sommaire des dépêches des ambassadeurs vénitiens relatives à la France, déposées au département des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale'' (1878), Paris.
Le Cabinet historique
', XXIV (1878), catalogues, pp. 259–261; un complément de cet inventaire a paru dans le Cabinet historique, XXV (1879), catalogues, pp. 216–217, *''Itinéraires à Jérusalem et descriptions de la Terre Sainte, rédigés en français aux XIe, XIIe tXIIIe siècles'' (1882). With French medievalist Henri-Victor Michelant.Michelant, H. Victor, Raynaud, G. (1882)
Itinéraires à Jérusalem et descriptions de la Terre Sainte rédigés en français aux XIe, XIIe & XIIIe siècles
Genève. * ''Les gestes des Chiprois: recueil de chroniques françaises écrites en Orient au XIIIe & XVIe siècles'' (1887). Translation for the ''Société de l'Orient latin'' by Raynaud. Raynaud's version of ''Les gestes des Chiprois'' is found in both ''

Recueil des historiens des croisades {{italic title The ''Recueil des historiens des croisades'' (trans: ''Collection of the Historians of the Crusades'') is a major collection of several thousand medieval documents written during the Crusades. The documents were collected and publish ...

'' (RHC) '' Documents arméniens'' (1869–1906), Volume 2.VI, and ''

Revue de l'Orient Latin The ''Revue de l'Orient Latin'' is a 12-volume set of medieval documents which was published from 1893–1911. It was a continuation of the ''Archives de l'Orient Latin'', two volumes of which were published from 1881–1884. Various medieval docum ...

'' (ROL), Volumes XIIIe, XIVe.Gérard de Monréal, Filippo, d. Novara, Raynaud, G. (1887)
Les gestes des Chiprois: recueil de chroniques françaises écrites en Orient au XIIIe & XVIe siècles
Genève. * An edition of the ''

Annales de Terre Sainte The ''Annales de Terre Sainte'' ("Annals of the Holy Land") is a series of brief annals of the Crusades and the Crusader states from the council of Clermont in 1095 until the fall of Acre in 1291. It is untitled in the manuscripts. Its modern ti ...

'', ''1095-1291'' (1884). With German historian

Reinhold Röhricht Gustav Reinhold Röhricht (18 November 1842 – 2 May 1905) was a German historian of the Crusades. Biography He was born in Bunzlau in Silesia (now Bolesławiec, Poland), the third son of a miller. He studied at the Gymnasium in Sagan (now ...

. The ''Annales de Terre Sainte'' is a series of chronological entries recounting the history of the Crusades and the Latin East from 1095–1291. The ''Annales'' tradition proved popular enough that it was copied into a number of compilation manuscripts, such as the ''Gestes des Chiprois.Raynaud, G., Röhricht, R. (1884)
Annales de Terre Sainte, 1095-1291
Paris.''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Raynaud, Gaston 1850 births 1911 deaths Historians of the Crusades École Nationale des Chartes alumni French librarians French literary historians French medievalists 19th-century French historians