BON 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 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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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1878—1883), gives a See also:complete history of France, and superseded See also:Sismondi's Histoire See also:des See also:Francais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 (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
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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