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See also:ANTOINE See also:ALEXANDRE See also:BARBIER (1765–1825)
, See also:French librarian and bibliographer, was See also:born on the 11th of See also:January 1765 at See also:Coulommiers (See also:Seine-et-See also:Marne)
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He took See also:priest's orders, from which, however, he was finally released by the See also:pope in 18o1
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In 1794 he became a member of the temporary See also:commission of the arts, and was charged with the See also:duty of distributing among the various See also:libraries of See also:Paris the books that had been confiscated during the Revolution
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In the See also:execution of this task he discovered the letters of See also:Huet, See also:bishop of See also:Avranches, and the See also:MSS. of the See also:works of See also:Fenelon
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He became librarian successively to the See also:Directory, to the Conseil d'Etat, and in 1807 to See also:Napoleon, from whom he carried out a number of commissions
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He produced a See also:standard See also:work in his Dictionnaire See also:des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes (4 vols., 1806–1809; 3rd edition 1872–1879)
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Only the first See also:part of his Examen critique des dictionnaires historiques (182o) was published
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He had a See also:share in the See also:foundation of the libraries of the Louvre, of See also:Fontainebleau, of See also:Compiegne and See also:Saint-See also:Cloud; under See also: |
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