DENIS

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• JEAN

JEAN ACHILLE

See also:

• DENIS JEAN ACHILLE LUCHAIRE (1846-1908)

LUCHAIRE (1846-1908)  , French historian, was born in Paris on the 24th of October 1846 . In 1879 he became a professor at Bordeaux and in 1889 professor of medieval history at the Sorbonne; in 1895 he became a member of the Academic des sciences morales et politiques, where he obtained the Jean Reynaud prize just before his death on the 14th of November 1908 . The most important of Achille Luchaire's earlier works is his Histoire des institutions monarchiques de la France sous les premiers Capetiens (1883 and again 1891); he also wrote a Manuel des institutions francaises: periode des Capetiens directs (1892); Louis VI. le Gros, annales'de sa vie et de son regne (189o); and Etude sur les actes de Louis VII . (1885) . His later writings deal mainly with the history of the papacy, and took the form of an elaborate work on Pope Innocent III . This is divided into six parts: (i.) Rome et Italie Lucerne (Medicago sativa), 4 nat . size . 1, Flower, enlarged . 2, Half-ripe fruit, ; nat. size . 3, Fruit, enlarged . (1904); (ii.) La Croisade des Albigeois (1905); (iii.) La Papaute et l'empire (1905); (iv.) La Question d'Orient (1906); (v.) Les Royautes vassales du Saint-Siege (1908); and (vi.) Le Concile de Lalran et la reforme de l'Eglise (1908) . He wrote two of the earlier volumes of E .

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