Ludovic Lalanne (23 April 1815, Paris – 16 May 1898, Paris) was a French historian and librarian. The engineer and politician
Léon Lalanne
Léon Louis Lalanne (; real surname: Chrétien-Lalanne; 3 July 1811 – 12 March 1892) was a French engineer and politician.
Life
Lalanne was born in Paris on 3 July 1811, as Léon Louis Chrétien, the son of François Julien Léon Chrétien, a ph ...
(1811–1892) was his brother.
Biography
Lalanne was a student at the
lycée Louis-le-Grand
The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on rue Saint-Jacques in central Paris. It was founded in the ...
and later at the
École des Chartes
École may refer to:
* 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
* École, Sav ...
, where he was graduated archivist paleographer in 1841. He was librarian of the Institut.
He was a resident member of the
Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques
The Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (CTHS) (''Committee for Historic and Scientific Works'') is a French research institution created by the Minister of Public Education François Guizot on 18 July 1834 for the purpose of 'leading ...
, archivist of the
Société de l'École des chartes and president of the
Société de l'histoire de France
The Société de l'histoire de France (SHF) (English: ''Society of the History of France'') was established on 21 December 1833 at the instigation of the French minister of Public Instruction, François Guizot, in order to contribute to the renewa ...
.
Publications
Lalanne published many works (sometimes in collaboration) including:
* ''Essai sur le feu grégeois et sur la poudre à canon'', 1845
read online
like most of his other writings :
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* ''Les Pèlerinages en Terre Sainte avant les Croisades'', 1845
* ''Curiosités littéraires'', 1845
* ''Curiosités bibliographiques'', 1845
* ''Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris sous François Ier (1515–1536)'', 1854
* ''Curiosités philologiques, géographiques et ethnologiques'', 1855
* ''Les Tragiques d'Augrippa d'Abigné'', 1857
* ''Mémoires de Marguerite de Valois'', 1858
* ''Curiosités biographiques'', 1858
* ''Å’uvres de Malherbe'', 1862
* ''Dictionnaire historique de la France'', 1872–77
* ''Mémoires de Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy'', 1882
* ''Le Livre de fortune de Jehan Cousin, recueil de deux cents dessins inédits'', 1883
* ''Œuvres complètes de Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme'', 1864–82
* ''Journal du voyage du Cavalier Bernin en France'', 1885
* ''Å’uvres de Lagrange'', 1892
* ''Brantôme sa vie et ses écrits'', 1896
Lalanne also realised th
inventory of the manuscripts of Paris Observatory Library
References
External links
Ludovic Lalanne
on data.bnf.fr
* L'annuaire prosopographique d
Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques
file on Ludovic Lalann
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Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni
École Nationale des Chartes alumni
French librarians
French bibliographers
19th-century French historians
1815 births
Writers from Paris
1898 deaths