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BON LOUIS HENRI MARTIN (1810-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 794 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS See also:HENRI See also:MARTIN (1810-1883)  , See also:French historian, was See also:born on the loth of See also:February 1810 at St Quentin (See also:Aisne), where his See also:father was a See also:judge . Trained as a See also:notary, he followed this profession for some See also:time but having achieved success with an See also:historical See also:romance, Wolfthurm (183o), he applied himself to historical See also:research . Becoming associated with See also:Paul See also:Lacroix (" le Bibliophile See also:Jacob "), he planned with him a See also:history of See also:France, to consist of excerpts from the See also:chief chroniclers and historians, with See also:original See also:matter filling up gaps in the continuity . The first See also:volume, which appeared in 1833, encouraged the author to make the See also:work his own, and his Histoire de France, in fifteen volumes (1833—1836), was the result . This magnum See also:opus, rewritten and further elaborated (4th ed., 16 vols. and See also:index, 1861—1865) gained for the author in 1856 the first See also:prize of the See also:Academy, and in 1869 the See also:grand biennial prize of 20,000 francs . A popular abridgment in seven volumes was published in 1867 . This, together with the continuation, Histoire de France depuis 1789 jusqu'd nos jours (6 vols . 1878—1883), gives a See also:complete history of France, and superseded See also:Sismondi's Histoire See also:des See also:Francais . This work is in parts defective; See also:Martin's descriptions of the Gauls are based rather on romance than on history, and in this respect he was too much under the See also:influence of See also:Jean Reynaud and his cosmogonic See also:philosophy . However he gave a See also:great impetus to See also:Celtic and anthropological studies . His knowledge of the mddile ages is inadequate, and his criticisms are not discriminating . As a See also:free-thinking republican, his prejudices often biassed his See also:judgment on the See also:political and religious history of the ancien regime .

The last six volumes, devoted to the 17th and 18th centuries, are See also:

superior to the earlier ones . Martin sat in the assemblee nationale as See also:deputy for Aisne in 1871, and was elected See also:life senator in 1878, but he See also:left no See also:mark as a politician . He died in See also:Paris on the 14th of See also:December 1883 . Among his See also:minor See also:works may be mentioned:—De la France, de son genie et de ses destinies (1847); See also:Daniel See also:Manin (186o), La Russie et l'See also:Europe (1866) ; Etudes d'archeologie celtique (1872) ; See also:Les See also:Napoleon et les frontieres de la France (1874) . See his See also:biography by See also:Gabriel See also:Hanotaux, See also:Henri Martin; sa See also:vie,_ ses oeuvres, son temps (1885) .

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