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 GEORGES OUDARD FEUDRIX DE See also:BREQUIGNY (1714–1795)
, See also:French See also:scholar, was See also:born at Gainneville near See also:Havre, on the 22nd of See also:February 1714, and died at See also:Paris on the 3rd of See also:July 1795
.
His first publications were See also:anonymous: an Histoire See also:des revolutions de Genes jusqu'd la paix de 1748 (1750), and a See also:series of Vies des orateurs grecs (1752)
.
Elected a member of the Academie des See also:Inscriptions et Belles-lettres in 1759, he contribu ted an Histoire de Posthume empereur des Gaules (vol. See also:xxx., 176o) to the collected See also:works of that illustrious society, and also a Memoire sur l'etablissement de la See also:religion et de l'See also:empire de See also:Mahomet (vol. xxxii., 1761–1763)
.
After the See also:close of the Seven Years' See also:War he was sent to See also:search in the archives of See also:England for documents bearing upon the See also:history of See also:France, more particularly upon that of the French provinces which once belonged to England
.
This See also:mission (1764–1766) was very fruitful in results; See also:Brequigny brought back from it copies of about 7000 documents, which are now in the Bibliotheque Nationale
.
A useful selection .of these documents was published (unfortunately without adequate See also:critical treatment) by See also:Jean Jacques See also:Champollion-See also:Figeac, under the See also:title Lettres de rois, refines et autres personnages des See also:tours de France et d'Angleterre, depuis 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 VII. jusqu'd See also:Henri IV., tirees des archives de Londres See also:par Brequigny (collection of Documents inedits relatifs (i l'histoire de France, 2 vols., 1839, 1847)
.
Brequigny himself See also:drew the material for many important studies from the See also:rich mine which he had thus exploited
.
These were included in the collection of the See also:Academic des Inscriptions: Memoire sur See also:les diferends entre la France et dAngleterre sous le regne de See also:Charles le See also:Bel (vol. xli.); Memoire sur la See also:vie de See also:Marie, reine de France, sceur de Henri VIII., roi d'Angleterre (vol. xlii.); four Menzoires pour servir d l'histoire de See also:Calais (vols. xliii. and 1.); and Memoire sur les negotiations touchant les projets de mariage d'See also:Elizabeth, reine d'Angleterre, d'abord avec le duc d'See also:Anjou, ensuite avec le duc d'See also:Alencon, tous deux freres de Charles IX
.
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1.)
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This last was read to the See also:Academy on the 22nd of See also:January 1793, the morrow of Louis XVI.'s See also:execution
.
Mean-while, Brequigny had taken See also:part in three See also:great and erudite works
.
For the Recueil des ordonnances des rois de France he had prepared
volumes x.-xiv., the See also:preface to vol. xi. containing important researches into the French communes
.
To the Table chronologique des diplo"See also:mes, chartes, lettres, et actes imprimes concernant l'histoire de France he contributed three volumes in collaboration with Mouchet (1769—1783)
.
Charged with the supervision of a large collection of documents bearing on French history, analogous to See also:Rymer's Foedera, he published the first See also:volume (Diplomat at
.
Chartae, &c., 1791)
.
The Revolution interrupted him in his collection of Memoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les lettres, et les arts des Chinois, begun in 1776 at the instance of the See also:minister See also:Bertin, when fifteen volumes had appeared
.
See the See also:note on Brequigny at the end of vol. i. of 'the Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions (1808) ; the Introduction to vol. iv. of the Table chronologique des diplo"mes (1836) ; Champollion-Figeac's preface to the Lettres des rois et reines; the Comite des travaux historiques, by X
.
Charmes, vol. i. passim; N
.
Oursel, Nouvelle biographic normande (1886); and the See also:Catalogue des manuscrits des collections See also:Duchesne et Brequigny (in the Bibliotheque Nationale), by Rene Poupardin (1905)
.
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