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GUSTAVE CHARLES FAGNIEZ (1842- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 125 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:FAGNIEZ (1842- )  , See also:French historian and economist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 6th of-See also:October 1842 . Trained at the Ecole See also:des Chartes and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, he made his first See also:appearance in the See also:world of scholarship as the author of an excellent See also:book called Etudes sur l'industrie et la clarse industrielle d Paris au XIII e et au XI V siecle (1877) . This See also:work, composed almost entirely from documents, many unpublished, opened a new See also:field for See also:historical study . Twenty years later he supplemented this book by an interesting collection of Documents relatifs a l'histoire de t'industrie et du See also:commerce en See also:France (2 vols., 1898-1900), and in 1897 he published L'Economie sociale de la France sous See also:Henri IV, a See also:volume containing the results of very See also:minute See also:research . He did not, however, confine himself to economic See also:history . His Le Pere See also:Joseph et See also:Richelieu (1894), though somewhat frigid and severe, is based on a massof unpublished See also:information, and shows remarkable psychologic grasp . In 1878 his See also:Journal parisien de Jeats de Maupoint, See also:prieur de Ste See also:Catherine-de-la-See also:Couture was published in vol. iv. of the Memoires de la societe de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile de France . He wrote numerous articles in the Revue historique (of which he was co-director with See also:Gabriel See also:Monod for some years) and in other learned reviews, such as the Revue des questions historiques and the Journal des savants . • In 1901 he was elected member of the Academie,des Sciences Morales et Politiques .

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