Louis Petit de Julleville (18 July 1841 – 28 August 1900) was a French scholar.
Life
Born in Paris, Petit de Julleville was educated at the
École Normale Supérieure
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* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
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and the
French School at Athens
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History ...
. He received his doctorate in literature in 1868. After holding various posts as a teacher, he became a professor of French medieval literature and of the history of the
French language
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at the
University of Paris
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in 1886.
Works
His most important works are:
*''Histoire du théâtre en France'', including ''Les Mystères'' (2 vols, 1880)
*''Les Comédiens en France au Moyen âge'' (1885)
*''La Comédie et les mœurs en France au Moyen âge'' (1886)
*''Répertoire du théâtre comique en France au Moyen âge'' (1886)
*''Le Théâtre en France, histoire de la littérature dramatique depuis ses origines jusqu'à nos jours'' (1889)
Petit de Julleville was also the general editor of the ''Histoire de la langue et de la littérature française'' (8 vols, 1896-1900), to which he also contributed some valuable chapters himself.
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1841 births
1900 deaths
Collège Stanislas de Paris alumni
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Writers from Paris
French male non-fiction writers
19th-century French historians
Members of the Ligue de la patrie française
19th-century French male writers