Émile Campardon

Émile Campardon (18 July 1837 – 23 February 1915) was a French historian, archivist and writer. He was an archivist and head of the judicial section of the Archives nationales de France from 1857 to 1908, and the author of numerous books. At the beginning of the 20th century he published ''Quatrains'' and ''Souvenirs d’un archiviste''. Intended for a circle of friends these extremely rare volumes contain amusing and impertinent portraits of archivists of the 19th century.

He is known above all for his four fundamental works on the history of the theatres of Paris:

* ''Les Spectacles de la foire'', Paris, Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1877, 2 vols.
* ''Les Comédiens de la troupe française'', Paris, H. Champion, 1879.
* ''Les Comédiens du roi de la troupe italienne'', Paris, Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1880, 2 vols.
* ''L'Académie royale de musique au XVIIIe siècle'', Paris, Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1884, 2 vols.

Biography

Born in Paris in 1837, Louis Émile Campardon was the son of Jean François Amand Campardon (1804-1882), a physician, and Aglaé Françoise Aimée Gallais (1809-1874). He became a student at the École nationale des chartes, where in 1857 he defended a thesis entitled Essai sur les clercs notaires et secrétaires du roi depuis leur établissement jusqu'en 1483, précédé d'une notice sur les referendarii, Cancellarii et Notarii sous les deux premières races, et sous la troisième jusqu'à Philippe IV, which earned him the diploma of École Nationale des Chartes.

Curator at the Archives Nationales (France), where he headed the judicial section from 1857 to 1908, he published a monograph on the Paris Revolutionary Tribunal in the 1860s and, in the early 20th century, Quatrains et Souvenirs d'un archiviste. Intended for a circle of friends, these extremely rare little books contain witty, impertinent portraits of 19th-century archivists.

On February 9, 1885, he married Pauline Célina Houillon (1825-1906), widow of a Paris wine merchant, in Argenteuil-sur-Armançon, Yonne.

He died on February 23, 1915 at his home, 57 Boulevard Beaumarchais, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. He was the brother of Charles Campardon, a hydrologist, and the brother-in-law of Marie Jeanne Émilie Delafontaine, from the family of bronze founders of the same name.

References

External links

''Les Spectacles de la foire''
on the websit
CÉSAR


Works by Émile Campardon at Google Books

19th-century French historians
French archivists
1837 births
1915 deaths
École Nationale des Chartes alumni
French male non-fiction writers
Knights of the Legion of Honour
19th-century French male writers

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