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LOUIS CLAUDE FREDERIC MASSON (1847– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 870 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS CLAUDE FREDERIC MASSON (1847– )  , French historian, was born at Paris on the 8th of March 1847 . His
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father, Francis Masson, a
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solicitor, was killed on the 23rd of
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June 1848, when major in the garde nationale . Young Masson was educated at the college of Sainte Barbe, and at the lycee Louis-le-
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Grand, and then travelled in Germany and in England; from 1869 to 188o he was librarian at the
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Foreign Office . At first he devoted himself to the
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history of diplomacy, and published between 1877 and 1884 several volumes connected with that subject . Later he published a number of more or less curious
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memoirs illustrating the history of the Revolution and of the
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empire . But he is best known for his books connected with
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Napoleon . In Napoleon inconnu (1895), Masson, together with M . Guido Biagi, brought out the unpublished writings (1786–1793) of the future emperor . These were notes, extracts from
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historical, philosophical and
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literary books, and
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personal reflections in which one can watch the growth of the ideas later carried out by the emperor with modifications necessitated by the force of circumstances and his own genius . But this was only one in a remarkable series: Josephine de Beauharnais, 1763–1796 (1898) ; Josephine, imperatrice et
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rein (1899) ; Josephine repudiee 1809–1814 (1901) ; L'Imperatrice
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Marie Louise (1902); Napoleon et
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les femmes (1894); Napoleon et sa famine (9 vols., 1897–1907); Napoleon et son fits (19o4); and Autour de l'Ple d'Elbe (1908) . These
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works abound in details and amusing anecdotes, which throw much
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light on the events and men of the time, laying stress on the personal, romantic and dramatic aspects of history . The author was made a member of the Academie francaise in 1903 .

From 1886 to 1889 he edited the

review Arts and Letters, published in
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London and New York . A bibliography of his works, including
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anonymous ones and those under an assumed name, has been published by G . Vicaire (Manuel de l'amateur
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des livres du XIX' siecle, tome v., 1904) . Napoleon et les femmes has been translated into
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English as Napoleon and the
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Fair Sex (1894) .

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