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ANSELME (See also:Father Anselme of the Virgin See also:Mary) (1625-1694)  , See also:French genealogist, was See also:born in See also:Paris in 1625 . As a layman his name was See also:Pierre Guibours . He entered the See also:order of the See also:bare-footed See also:Augustinians on the 31st of See also:March 1644, and it was in their monastery (called the Couvent See also:des Petits Peres, near the See also:church of Notre-See also:Dame des Victoires) that he died, on the 17th of See also:January 1694 . He devoted his entire See also:life to genealogical studies . In 1663 he. published Le Palais de l'honneur, which besides giving the See also:genealogy of the houses of See also:Lorraine and See also:Savoy, is a See also:complete See also:treatise on See also:heraldry, and in 1664 Le Palais de la gloire, dealing with the genealogy of various illustrious French and See also:European families . These books made See also:friends for him, the most intimate among whom, Honor-6 Caille, seigneur du Fourny (1630-1713), persuaded him to publish his Histoire genealogique de la maison royale de See also:France, et des grands officiers de la couronne (1674, 2 vols . 4); after See also:Father See also:Anselme's See also:death, Honore Caille collected his papers,and brought out a new edition of this highly important See also:work in 1712 . The task was taken up and continued by two other friars of the Couvent des Petits Peres, Father Ange de Sainte-Rosalie (See also:Francois Raffard, 1655-1726), and Father Simplicien (See also:Paul See also:Lucas, 1683-1759), who published the first and second volumes of the third edition in 1726 . This edition consists of nine volumes See also:folio; it is a genealogical and See also:chronological See also:history of the royal See also:house of France, of the peers, of the See also:great See also:officers of the See also:crown and of the See also:king's See also:household, and of the See also:ancient barons of the See also:kingdom . The notes were generally compiled from See also:original documents, references to which are usually given, so that they remain useful to the See also:present See also:day . The work of Father Anselme, his collaborators and successors, is even more important for the history of France than is See also:Dugdale's Baronage of See also:England for the history of England . (C .

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