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Louis de Mas Latrie (9 April 1815 – 3 January 1897) was a 19th-century French historian.


Biography

After his studies at 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 ...
, Louis de Mas Latrie became an historian and specialized on
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during the Middle Ages. He made several voyages there and is now considered by his peers as the founder of history and archaeology of the island. In 1848, he succeeded Jacques-Joseph Champollion as professor of
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at the École de Chartes and held that position until his retirement in 1885. He then chose
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who had been his assistant for two years to replace him. He was elected 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 ...
in 1885. He was also a member of the
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and of the Société de l’histoire de France. His works won numerous awards, including a prize bt the Academy des Inscriptions in 1843, a medal in the competition of National Antiquities in 1850 and first and second
Grand prix Gobert The grand prix Gobert is one of the prizes of the French Academy. It has been awarded every year in the field of History since 1834. It was instituted by the Foundation created by the estate of Baron Gobert Napoleon (1807–1833), son of general ...
in 1862 and 1878. In 1841, he married Pauline Rendu, the niece of Ambroise Rendu, with whom he had 4 children. Widowed in 1862, he remarried three years later with Julie Anne Chauvet, widow of a cousin of his wife, a former lawyer to the Conseil d'État and the Court de Cassation. In 1875, Pope Pius IX granted Louis Mas Latrie the title of count, transmissible to his male offspring. His eldest son, René de Mas Latrie (1844–1904), a former student of the École des Chartes, published in 1875 a study entitled ''Du droit de marque ou droit de représailles au Moyen Age''. One of the granddaughters of Louis Mas Latrie, Anne (1878–1946), married the royalist polemicist Roger Lambelin.


Principal works

*1840: ''Notice historique sur la paroisse de St Etienne-du-Mont, ses monuments et établissements anciens et modernes, suivie des offices propres à l'usage de la même paroisse'' *1840: ''Chronologie historique des papes, des conciles généraux et des conciles des Gaules et de France...'' *1852–1861
''Histoire de l'île de Chypre sous le règne des princes de la maison de Lusignan''
*1853: ''Dictionnaire des manuscrits ou Recueil de catalogues de manuscrits existants dans les principales bibliothèques d'Europe concernant plus particulièrement les matières ecclésiastiques et historiques'' *1854: ''Dictionnaire de paléographie, de cryptographie, de dactylologie, d'hiéroglyphie, de sténographie et de télégraphie'' *1862: ''Fac-simile des miniatures contenues dans le bréviaire Grimani conservé à la bibliothèque de St Marc, exécuté en photographie par Antoine Perini, avec explications de François Zanotto et un texte français de M. Louis de Mas Latrie'' *1865: ''Traités de paix et de commerce et documents divers concernant les relations des chrétiens avec les Arabes de l'Afrique septentrionale au moyen âge : recueillis par ordre de l'empereur et publiés avec une introduction historique'' *1878: ''De quelques seigneuries de Terre-Sainte'' *1879: ''Les Comtes de Jaffa et d'Ascalon du XIIe au XIXe siècle'' *1880:
Les Comtes du Carpas
' *1888: ''Les Rois de Serbie'' *1894: ''Les Seigneurs d'Arsur en Terre Sainte''


External links

* Une partie de la correspondance de Louis de Mas Latrie a étÃ
éditée en ligne
par un de ses descendants
Obsèques de M. le comte de Mas-Latrie
on Persée {{DEFAULTSORT:Mas Latrie, Louis de Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 19th-century French historians École Nationale des Chartes alumni Academic staff of the École Nationale des Chartes French medievalists French palaeographers Officiers of the Légion d'honneur 1815 births People from Castelnaudary 1897 deaths