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See also:JULIEN See also:HAVET (See also:PIERRE EUGLNE) (1853-1893) , See also:French historian, was See also:born at Vitry-sur-See also:Seine on the 4th of See also:April 1853, the second son of Ernest See also:Havet . He See also:early showed a remarkable aptitude for learning, but had a pronounced aversion for pure See also:rhetoric . His studies at. the Ecole See also:des Chartes (where he took first See also:place both on entering and leaving) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes did much to develop his See also:critical See also:faculty, and the See also:historical method taught and practised at these establishments brought See also:home to him the dignity of See also:history, which thenceforth became his ruling See also:passion . His valedictory thesis at the Ecole des Chartes, Serie chronologique des gardiens et seigneurs des Iles Normandes (1876), was a definitive See also:work and but slightly affected by later See also:research . In 1878 he followed his thesis by a study called See also:Les Cours royales dans les Iles Normandes . Both these See also:works were composed entirely from the See also:original documents at the Public See also:Record See also:Office, See also:London, and the archives of See also:jersey and See also:Guernsey . On the history of Merovingian institutions, Havet's conclusions were widely accepted (sec La Forniule N. rex Francor., v . After his See also:death his published and unpublished writings were collected and published (with the exception of Les Cours royales des Iles Normandes and Lettres de See also:Gerbert) in two volumes called Questions merovingiennes and Opuscules inedits (1896), containing, besides important papers on See also:diplomatic and on Carolingian and Merovingian history, a large number of See also:short monographs ranging over a See also:great variety of subjects . A collection of his articles was published by his See also:friends under the See also:title of Melanges Havet (1895), pre-fixed by a bibliography of his works compiled by his friend See also:Henri Omont . (C . |
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