MATHIEU AUGUSTE See also:

• MATHIEU AUGUSTE GEFFROY (1820-1895)

GEFFROY (1820-1895)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French historian, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris . After studying at the Ecole Normale Superieure he held See also:

• HISTORY

history professorships at various lycees . His French thesis for the doctorate of letters, Etude sur See also:

• LES

les See also:

• PAMPHLETS

pamphlets politiques et religieux de See also:

• MILTON
• MILTON, JOHN (1608–1674)

Milton (1848), showed that he was attracted towards See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign history, a study for which he soon qualified himself by mastering the Germanic and Scandinavian See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages . In 1851 he published a Histoire See also:

• DES

des Rats scandinaves, which is especially valuable for clear arrangement and for the trustworthiness . of its facts . Later, a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long stay in See also:

• SWEDEN
• SWEDEN [Sverige]
• SWEDEN, NORWAY AND

Sweden furnished him with valuable documents for a See also:

• POLITICAL

political and social history of Sweden and See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France at the end of the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . In 1864 and 1865 he published in the Revue des deux mondes a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of articles on Gustavus III. and the French See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court, which were republished in See also:

• BOOK

book See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form in 1867 . To the second See also:

• VOLUME

volume he appended a See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical study on See also:

• MARIE

Marie Antoinette. et 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 X VI apocryphes, in which he proved, by See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence See also:

• DRAWN

drawn from documents in the private archives of the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor of See also:

• AUSTRIA
• AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. Niederosterreich or Osterreich unter der Enns, " Austria below the river Enns ")
• AUSTRIA, UPPER (Ger. Oberosterreich or Osterreich ob der Enns, " Austria above the river Enns ")

Austria, that the letters published by See also:

• FEUILLET, OCTAVE (1821-1890)

Feuillet de Conches (Louis X VI, Marie Antoinette et Madame Elisabeth, 1864–1893) and Hunolstein (Corresp. inedite de Marie Antoinette, 1864) are forgeries . With the collaboration of See also:

• ALFRED

Alfred von See also:

• ARNETH, ALFRED, RITTER

Arneth, director of the imperial archives at See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, he edited the Correspondance secrete entre Marie-Therese et le See also:

• COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

comte de See also:

• MERCY (adapted from Fr. merci, Lat. merces, reward)
• MERCY (or MERCI), FRANZ, FREIHERR VON

Mercy-Argenteau (3 vols., 1874), the first See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account based on See also:

• TRUST

trust-worthy documents of Marie Antoinette's See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, private conduct and policy . The Franco-See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew See also:

• GEFFROY, MATHIEU AUGUSTE (1820-1895)

Geffroy's See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to the origins of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, and his See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome et les Barbares: etude sur la Germane de Tacite (1874) set forth some of the results of German scholarship . He was then appointed to superintend the opening of the French school of See also:

• ARCHAEOLOGY (from Gr. &pxa1a, ancient things, and Xoyos, theory or science)

archaeology at Rome, and drew up two useful reports (1877 and 1884) on its origin and See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• WORK

work . But his See also:

• PERSONAL

personal tastes always led him back to the study of See also:

• MODERN

modern history . When the Paris archives of foreign affairs were thrown open to students, it was decided to publish a collection of the instructions given to French ambassadors since 1648 (Recueil des instructions donnas aux ambassadeurs et ministres de France depuis le trait, de Westphabie), and Geffroy was commissioned to edit the volumes dealing with Sweden (vol.ii., r885) and See also:

• DENMARK
• DENMARK (Danmark)

Denmark (vol. xiii., 1895) .

In the See also:

• INTERVAL

interval he wrote Madame de See also:

• MAINTENON

Maintenon d'apres sa correspondance authentique (2 vols., 1887), in which he displayed his penetrating critical See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty in discriminating between See also:

• AUTHENTIC (from Gr. aOO 'rns, one who does a thing himself)

authentic documents and the additions and corrections of arrangers like La Beaumelle and Lavallee . His .last See also:

• WORKS

works were an Essai sur la formation des collections d'antiques de la Suede and Des institutions et des mceurs du paganisme scandinave: l'Islande avant le Christianisme, both published posthumously . He died at Bievre on the 16th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1895 .