Noël Valois (; 4 May 1855,
Paris
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– 11 November 1915,
Paris
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), was a French
historian
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.
The grandson of sculptor
Achille Valois
Achille-Joseph-Étienne Valois (; 13 January 1785 — 17 December 1862) was a French designer and sculptor who studied for a time in the atelier of Jacques-Louis David and whose sculptural works may be seen in Paris. He also studied with Antoin ...
, Valois studied at the
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
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. He then entered the
École Nationale des Chartes
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in 1875, where he presented his thesis on
William of Auvergne in 1879. He then joined the
National Archives
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From the Middle Ages i ...
in 1881.
The
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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History ...
awarded him with the prix Gobert for the publication of his work on the Council of State under
Henry IV in 1889. On 28 October 1893, he resigned from his post at the Archives National to devote himself to his research. Specializing in the study of the
Western Schism
The Western Schism, also known as the Papal Schism, the Great Occidental Schism, the Schism of 1378, or the Great Schism (), was a split within the Catholic Church lasting from 20 September 1378 to 11 November 1417, in which bishops residing ...
, historians realized thanks to him that the period of the papacy in the 14th century could be only studied by comparing the Avignon records with those of the Vatican.
Valois was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres on 23 May 1902 in replacement of Jules Girard. He went on to chair the Académie and the Institut de France in 1913. He was a corresponding member of the academies of Bologna and Munich.
Works
* ''Guillaume d'Auvergne, évêque de Paris, 1228-1249 : sa vie et ses ouvrages'', 1880.
* ''Étude sur le rythme des bulles pontificales'', 1881.
* ''Cartulaires de l'abbaye de Notre-Dame-des-Prés de Douai'', 1881.
* "La Revanche des frères Braque : notes sur la révolution parisienne de 1356-58", ''Mémoires de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Île-de-France'', 1883.
* ''Inventaire des arrêts du Conseil d'État (règne de Henri IV)'', 1886-1893.
* ''Le Gouvernement représentatif en France au XIV
e siècle'', 1885.
* ''Étude sur le Conseil du Roi pendant la captivité de Jean le Bon'', 1885.
* ''Le Conseil de raison de 1597'', 1885.
* ''Étude historique sur le Conseil du Roi'', 1886.
* ''Le Privilège de Châlo-Saint-Mars'', 1887
online* ''Le Rôle de Charles V au début du Grand Schisme (1378)'', Paris, 1887.
* ''Le Conseil du roi aux XIV
e, XV
e et XVI
e siècles'', Paris, 1888.
* "Raymond de Turenne et les papes d'Avignon (1386–1408)", ''Annales du Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire de France'', 1889.
* ''L'élection d'Urbain VI et les origines du Grand Schisme d'Occident'', 1890.
* ''Louis I
er, duc d'Anjou et le Grand Schisme d'Occident (1378-1380)'', 1892.
* ''Une ambassade allemande à Paris en 1381'', 1892.
* "Le Projet de mariage entre Louis de France et Catherine de Hongrie et le voyage de l'empereur Charles IV à Paris", ''Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire de France'', 1893.
* "La Situation de l'Église au mois d'octobre 1378", ''Mélanges Julien Havet'', 1895.
* ''Un poème de circonstance composé par un clerc de l'Université de Paris (1381)'', 1895.
''La France et le Grand Schisme d'Occident'', T. I et II, Paris, 1896-1901
La prolongation du Grand Schisme d'Occident au XVe siècle dans le midi de la France, pp. 163-175., 1899
* "Jeanne d'Arc et la prophétie de Marie Robine", ''Mélanges offerts à P. Fabre'', 1902.
* ''Histoire de la pragmatique sanction de Bourges sous Charles VII'', 1906.
* "Un nouveau témoignage sur Jeanne d'Arc", ''Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de France'', 1907.
* ''La Crise religieuse du XV
e siècle : Le pape et le concile (1418-1450)'', 1909.
* ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (XI
e édition), 1911. "Basel, Confession of," "Benedict XIII. (anti-pope)," etc.
* ''Le Procès de Gilles de Rais'', 1913.
* ''Vassy'', 1914.
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20th-century French historians
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
French archivists
French medievalists
Writers from Paris
1855 births
1915 deaths
Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni
École Nationale des Chartes alumni
French male non-fiction writers
19th-century French historians