Marie-Claude Guigue (16 October 1832,

Trévoux Trévoux (; frp, Trevôrs) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. The inhabitants are known as Trévoltiens. It is a suburb of Lyon, built on the steeply sloping left bank of the river Saône. History In AD 843, the treaty ...

– 8 February 1889, Trévoux) was a French

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. He gained a

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in 1852, and a licence in

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in 1855. He attended the

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, where he graduated as an ''archiviste paléographe'' with the thesis ''Essai sur les causes de la dépopulation de la Dombes et l'origine des étangs'' ("Essay on the causes of the depopulation of the

Dombes The Dombes (; Arpitan: Domba) is an area in eastern France, once an independent municipality, formerly part of the province of Burgundy, and now a district comprised in the department of Ain, and bounded on the west by the Saône River, on th ...

and origin of the Étangs"; 1857). He was also the translator of secret notes of

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. In 1873 he published ''Topographie historique du département de l'Ain'' ("Historical topography of the department of

Ain Ain (, ; frp, En) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Named after the Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is located on the country's eastern edge, on the Swiss border, where ...

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* 1859 – Auditor of

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. * 1866 – Collector in

Songieu Songieu () is a former commune in the Ain department in eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Haut Valromey.

. * 1870 – Collector in

Vonnas Vonnas (; frp, Vonâs) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Vonnas has a famous restaurant with three stars in the Guide Michelin, the Hotel Restaurant Georges Blanc. Geography The Veyle forms part of the commune's northea ...

. * 1873 – County archivist of Ain. * 1874 – Assistant archivist of

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...

. * 1877–1889 –

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-in-Chief of the departmental archives of the

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and Lyon. * 1877 – Member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon. * 1880 – Inspector-General of the municipal archives department. * His son Georges continued his work and his passion for

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References

1832 births 1889 deaths People from Trévoux École Nationale des Chartes alumni French archivists 19th-century French historians {{France-historian-stub