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:CLAUDE See also:FREDERIC See also:MASSON (1847– )
, See also:French historian, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 8th of See also:March 1847
.
His See also:father, See also:Francis See also:Masson, a See also:solicitor, was killed on the 23rd of See also:June 1848, when See also:major in the garde nationale
.
See also:Young Masson was educated at the See also:college of Sainte Barbe, and at the lycee 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-le-See also:Grand, and then travelled in See also:Germany and in See also:England; from 1869 to 188o he was librarian at the See also:Foreign See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office
.
At first he devoted himself to the See also:history of See also:diplomacy, and published between 1877 and 1884 several volumes connected with that subject
.
Later he published a number of more or less curious See also:memoirs illustrating the history of the Revolution and of the See also:empire
.
But he is best known for his books connected with See also:Napoleon
.
In Napoleon inconnu (1895), Masson, together with M
.
Guido Biagi, brought out the unpublished writings (1786–1793) of the future See also:emperor
.
These were notes, extracts from See also:historical, philosophical and See also:literary books, and See also:personal reflections in which one can See also:watch the growth of the ideas later carried out by the emperor with modifications necessitated by the force of circumstances and his own See also:genius
.
But this was only one in a remarkable See also:series: See also:Josephine de See also:Beauharnais, 1763–1796 (1898) ; Josephine, imperatrice et See also:rein (1899) ; Josephine repudiee 1809–1814 (1901) ; L'Imperatrice See also:Marie See also:Louise (1902); Napoleon et See also:les femmes (1894); Napoleon et sa See also:famine (9 vols., 1897–1907); Napoleon et son fits (19o4); and Autour de l'Ple d'See also:Elbe (1908)
.
These See also:works abound in details and amusing anecdotes, which throw much See also:light on the events and men of the 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, 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 See also:review Arts and Letters, published in See also:London and New See also:York
.
A bibliography of his works, including See also:anonymous ones and those under an assumed name, has been published by G
.
See also:Vicaire (See also:Manuel de l'See also:amateur See also:des livres du XIX' siecle, tome v., 1904)
.
Napoleon et les femmes has been translated into See also:English as Napoleon and the See also:Fair See also:Sex (1894)
.
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