Natalis de Wailly (10 May 1805, Mézières, Ardennes – 4 December 1886, Paris) was a French

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, librarian and historian. In 1841, as head of the Administrative Section of the

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, he wrote a ministerial circular, issued by Count

Tanneguy Duchâtel Count Charles Marie Tanneguy Duchâtel (19 February 1803, Paris – 5 November 1867, Paris) was a French politician. He was Minister of the Interior in the Cabinet of François-Pierre Guizot (19 September 1847 to 24 February 1848), losing off ...

, Minister of the Interior, stating that records should be grouped according to the nature of the institution that has accumulated them and formulating the principle of ''

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'' (up until that point, archives had often been sorted according to subject, date or place). In 1854, he was appointed head of the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque impériale. A member of 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 ...

since 1841 and of several learned societies (e.g.

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 ...

Société des anciens textes français Société des anciens textes français (SATF) is a learned society founded in Paris in 1875 with the purpose of publishing all kinds of medieval documents written either in langue d'oïl or langue d'oc (''Bulletin de la SATF'', 1 (1875), p. 1) ...

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), he was a renowned paleographer and published scientific editions of medieval chroniclers (e.g. Villehardouin and

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''Histoire de Saint Louis, par Jean, sire de Joinville'', 1868. Jean, sire de Joinville, ''Histoire de Saint Louis, Credo'' and ''Lettre à Louis X'', 1874 (translation).).

Works

Books

* '' Éléments de paléographie'', Paris : imprimerie royale, 1838, 2 vol.
vol.1 : XII-716 p.
&
vol.2 : IV-452 p.
* ''Mémoire sur des fragments de papyrus écrits en latin'', Paris : imprimerie royale, 184

* ''Mémoire sur la date et le lieu de naissance de Saint Louis'', Paris : imprimerie royale, 184

* ''Mémoire sur

Geoffrey of Paris Geoffrey of Paris (Geoffroy de Paris; died c. 1320), French chronicler, was probably the author of the ''Chronique metrique de Philippe le Bel'', or ''Chronique rimée de Geoffroi de Paris''. This work, which deals with the history of France from 1 ...

'', Paris : imprimerie royale, 184

* ''Mémoire sur les variations de la livre tournois depuis le règne de Saint Louis jusqu'à l'établissement de la monnaie décimale'', Paris : imprimerie impériale, 185

* ''Recherches sur le système monétaire de Saint Louis'', Paris : imprimerie impériale, 185

* ''Mémoire sur la langue de

'', Paris : librairie A. Franck, 186

* ''Histoire de Saint Louis, suivie du Credo et de la lettre à Louis X'', Paris : Éditions Mme veuve de Jules Renouard, 1868, XLIV-411, rl=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2003200.r, Read online * ''Recueil de chartes en langue vulgaire provenant des archives de la Collégiale de Saint-Pierre-d'Aire'', Paris, 187

Articles

* ''Notice sur six manuscrits contenant l'ouvrage anonyme publié en 1837 par M. Louis Paris sous le titre de Chronique de Rains'', Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques, 24:2, 1876, p. 289-340

Documents mis en ordre et commentés

* ''Récits d'un ménestrel de Reims au treizième siècle'', publiés pour la ''Société de l'histoire de France'', Paris : Renouard, 1876, vi+lxxi+332 p

* ''Histoire de la conquête de Constantinople par Geoffroi de Ville-Hardouin, avec la continuation de Henri de Valenciennes'' : Texte rapproché du français moderne par Natalis de Wailly, Paris : Firmin-Didot, 188

References

Bibliography

Henri-Alexandre Wallon, Henri Wallon, "Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Joseph-Natalis de Wailly", ''

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 ...

'', 1888, p. 581-608. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wailly, Natalis 1805 births 1886 deaths People from Charleville-Mézières French medievalists 19th-century French historians French librarians French archivists French palaeographers Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery