EMILE

THEODORE

See also:

• LEON
• LEON, LUIS PONCE DE (1527-1591)
• LEON, MOSES BEN SI
• LEON, or LEON DE LAS ALDAMAS

LEON

See also:

• GAUTIER
• EMILE THEODORE LEON GAUTIER (1832-1897)
• GAUTIER, THEOPHILE (1811-1872)

GAUTIER (1832-1897)  , French literary historian, was born at Havre on the 8th of August 1832 . He was educated at the Ecole des Chartes, and became successively keeper of the archives of the department of Haute-Marne and of the imperial archives at Paris under the empire . In 1871 he became professor of palaeography at the Ecole des Chartes . He was elected member of the Academy of Inscriptions in 1887, and became chief of the historical section of the national archives in 1893 . Leon Gautier rendered great services to the study of early French literature, the most important of his numerous works on medieval subjects being a critical text (Tours, 1872) with translation and introduction of the Chanson de Roland, and Les Epopees frangaises (3 vols., 1866-1867; 2nd ed., 5 vols., 1878-1897, including a Bibliographie des chansons de geste) . He died in Paris on the 25th of August 1897 .