See also:ETIENNE See also:BALUZE (1630-1718)
, See also:French See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Tulle on the 24th of See also:November 163o
.
He was educated at his native See also:town and took See also:minor orders
.
As secretary to See also:Pierre de See also:Marca, See also:archbishop of See also:Toulouse, he won the appreciation of that learned See also:prelate to such a degree that at his See also:death Marca See also:left him all his papers
.
Thus it came about that See also:Baluze produced the first See also:complete edition of Marca's See also:treatise De libertatibus Ecclesiae Gallicanae (1663), and brought out his Marca hispanica (1688 f.)
.
About 1667 Baluze entered See also:Colbert's service, and until 1700 was in See also:charge of the invaluable library belonging to that See also:minister and to his son the See also:marquis de Seignelai
.
He enriched it prodigiously (see the See also:history of the Colbertine library in the See also:Cabinet See also:des Manuscrits by M
.
See also:Leopold See also:Delisle, vol. i.), and Colbert rewarded him by obtaining various benefices for him, and the See also:post of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:almoner (1679)
.
Subsequently Baluze was appointed See also:professor of See also:Canon See also:law at the See also:College de See also:France on the 31st of See also:December 1689, and directed that See also:great institution from 1707 to 1710
.
The See also:works which See also:place him in the first See also:rank of the scholars of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time are the Capitularia Regum Francorum (1674; new edition enlarged and corrected in 178o) ; the Nova Collectio Conciliorum (4 vols., 1677); the Miscellanea (7 vols., 1678-1715; new edition revised by Mansi, 4 vols. f., 1761-1764); the Letters of See also:Pope See also:Innocent III
.
(1682); and, finally, the Vitae Paparum Avenionensium, 1305-1394 (1693)
.
But he was unfortunate enough to take up the history of See also:Auvergne just at the time when the See also:cardinal de See also:Bouillon, inheritor of the rights, and above all of the ambitious pretensions of the La Tour See also:family, was endeavouring to prove the descent of that See also:house in the See also:direct See also:line from the See also:ancient hereditary See also:counts of Auvergne of the 9th See also:century
.
As See also:authentic documents in support of these pretensions could not be found, false ones were fabricated
.
The See also:production of See also:spurious genealogies had already been begun in the Histoire de la maison d'Auvergne published by Christophe Justel in 1645; and Chorier, the historian of Dauphiny, had included in the second See also:volume of his history (1672) a forged See also:deed which connected the La See also:Tours of Dauphiny with the La Tours of Auvergne
.
Next a See also:regular manufactory of forged documents was organized by a certain See also:Jean de See also:Bar, an intimate See also:companion of the cardinal
.
These rogues were skilful enough, for they succeeded in duping the most illustrious scholars; Dom Jean See also:Mabillon, the founder of Diplomatics, Dom See also:Thierry Ruinart and Baluze himself, called as experts, made a unanimously favourable See also:report on the 23rd of See also:July 1695
.
But cardinal de Bouillon had many enemies, and a See also:war of See also:pamphlets began
.
In See also:March 1698 Baluze in reply wrote a See also:Letter which proved nothing
.
Two years later, in 1700, Jean de Bar and his accomplices were arrested, and after a See also:long and searching inquiry were declared guilty in 1704
.
Baluze, nevertheless, was obstinate in his See also:opinion
.
He was convinced that the incriminated documents were genuine and proposed to do Justel's See also:work anew
.
Encouraged and financially supported by the cardinal de Bouillon, he first produced a Table genealogique in 1705, and then in 1709 a Histoire genealogique de la maison d' Auvergne, with " Proofs," among which, unfortunately, we find all the deeds which had been pronounced spurious
.
In the following See also:year he was suddenly engulfed in the disgrace which overtook his intriguing See also:patron: deprived of his appointments, See also:pensions and benefices, he was exiled far from See also:Paris
.
None the less he continued to work, and in 1717 published a history of his native town, Historiae Tutelensis libri tres
.
Before his death he succeeded in returning to Paris, where he died unconvinced of his errors on the 28th of July 1718
.
Was he dupe or See also:accomplice
?
The study of his See also:correspondence with the cardinal gives the impression that he was the victim of See also:clever cheats
.
The history of the forgeries committed in the interests of the house of Bouillon forms a curious and instructive See also:episode in the history of French scholarship in the time of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV
.
It is to be found in the See also:Manuel de diplomatique by A
.
See also:Giry; and above all in a See also:note to the Euvres de See also:Saint-See also:Simon by M. de Boislisle (vol. xiv. pp
.
533–558)
.
The bibliography of Baluze's researches has been made by M
.
Rene Fage (1882, 1884) and his See also:Life told by M
.
Emile Fage (1899)
.
To these we must add an amusing See also:book by G
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See also:Clement-Simon, La Gaiete de Baluze; documents biographiques et litteraires
(1888)
.
Baluze's will has been published by M
.
Leopold Delisle (Bibliotheque de l'Ecole de See also:Charles, 1872) ; his papers are now in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and in the Bibliotheque de 1'See also:Arsenal (Revue historique, t. xcviii. p
.
309)
.
See also the See also:article by See also:Arthur de Boislisle in the Revue des questions historiques for See also:October 1908
.
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.
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