Jean-Louis-Théodore Bachelet (15 January 1820 – 26 September 1879) was a 19th-century French historian and musicologist.
Biography
After studying at the
Lycée Pierre-Corneille
The Lycée Pierre-Corneille (; also known as the Lycée Corneille) is a state secondary school located in the city of Rouen, France.
Founded by the Jesuits in 1593, the school was secularized following the 1905 French law on the Separation of th ...
in Rouen and the
Lycée Hoche
The Lycée Hoche is a public secondary school located in Versailles (city), Versailles, France. Formerly, it had been a nunnery founded by French queen Marie Leszczyńska. However, after the French Revolution, it became a school in 1803. In 1888, ...
in Versailles, he entered the École normale in 1840 and was received agrégé d'histoire in 1846. Successively a teacher of history at colleges in Le Havre, Chartres and St. Quentin, then in high schools at Clermont-Ferrand and Coutances, he was appointed in 1847 Professor of History at lycée of Rouen, where he taught until 1873 and in the preparatory school to higher education in this city. Also an accomplished
musicologist
Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...
, he donated his important fifteenth to eighteenth centuries sheet music collection at the Library of Rouen of which he also was responsible after 1873.
In collaboration with
Charles Dezobry
Louis Charles Dezobry (4 March 1798 – 16 August 1871) was a 19th-century French historian and historical novelist, born at St-Denis.
Works
* ''Rome au siècle d'Auguste, ou Voyage d'un Gaulois à Rome à l'époque du règne d'Auguste et ...
, Bachelet wrote:
* ', Paris, 1857 and 1863. Reprint: Paris, Delagrave, 1889, 2 vol., 2989 p.;
* ', Paris, 1863.
He is also the author of simple popular works, published under his name or under the pseudonyms "Bosquet" or "Mignan", by the in Rouen; The nine children's books published by Mégard had a circulation of nearly 200,000 copies.
[Michel Manson, ''Rouen, le livre et l’enfant de 1700 à 1900 : la production rouennaise de manuels et de livres pour l’enfance et la jeunesse'', Paris, Institut national de recherche pédagogique, 1993, 268 p., (), (p. 92–98).]
Publications
*1837: ''Psaumes et cantiques en faux bourdon'', Rouen, Fleury Fils Ainé.
*1852: ''La Guerre de cent ans'', Rouen, Mégard; rééd. Nîmes, Lacour, 2013.
*1863: ''Les Français en Italie au XVI'', Rouen, Mégard.
*1853: ''Mahomet et les Arabes'', Rouen, Mégard
*1853: ''Les Rois catholiques d’Espagne'', Rouen, Mégard.
*1859: ''les Grands Ministres français : Suger, Jacques Cœur, Sully, Richelieu, Mazarin, Colbert''
*1868: ''Histoire de Napoléon Ier'', Rouen, Mégard
*1863: ''Saint-Louis roi de France''
*1868–75: ''Cours d’histoire'', 3 vol., Paris, A. Courcier, 1878–1885.
*1869: ''François Ier et son siècle''
*1871–74: ''Cours d’histoire de France'', 3 vol., Paris, A. Courcier, 1874–1879.
*1864: ''Les Hommes illustres de France'', Rouen, Mégard.
*1874: ''Histoire des temps modernes'', Paris, A. Courcier.
*1886: ''Les Arabes : origine, mœurs, religion, conquêtes'', Rouen, Mégard.
Sources
*
Édouard Frère
Édouard Frère (; 27 September 1797, Rouen – 7 April 1874, Rouen) was a French bookseller, archivist, biographer, and historian specialized in the Normandy area.
Life
The son and grandson of booksellers, Frère's father, Jacques-Christophe o ...
, ''Manuel du bibliographe normand'', Rouen, Le Brument, 1860, (p. 59).
*
Gustave Vapereau
Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''.
Biography ...
, ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'', Paris, Hachette, 1870, (p. 84).
References
External links
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19th-century French historians
French librarians
Writers from Normandy
19th-century French musicologists
1820 births
People from Seine-Maritime
1879 deaths
19th-century French lexicographers