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[MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE MEYER (184o- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 349 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIE] See also:PAUL HYACINTHE See also:MEYER (184o- )  , See also:French philologist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 17th of See also:January 1840 . He was educated at the ?cote See also:des Chartes, and in 1863 was attached to the See also:manuscript See also:department of the Bibliotheque Nationale . In 1876 he became See also:professor of the See also:languages and literatures of See also:southern See also:Europe at the See also:College de See also:France . In 1882 he was made director of the ficole des Chartes, and a See also:year later was nominated' a member of the See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions . He was one of the founders of the Revue critique, arid a founder and the See also:chief contributor to Romania (1872) . See also:Paul See also:Meyer began with the study of old Provencal literature, but subsequently did valuable See also:work in many different departments of See also:romance literature, and ranks as the chief See also:modern authority on the French See also:language . He is the author of See also:Rap ports sur See also:les documents manuscrits de l'ancienne litterature de la France conserves clans les bibliotheques de la Grande Bretagne (1871); Recueil d'anciens textes bas-latins, provencaux et See also:francais (2 parts, 1874-1876); See also:Alexandre le See also:Grand clans la litterature francaise du moyen See also:age (2 vols., 1886) . He edited a See also:great number of old French texts for the Societe des anciens textes francais, the Societe de l'histoire de France and independently . Among these may be mentioned Aye d'See also:Avignon (1861), with Guessard; Flamenca (*_865); the Histoire of See also:Guillaume le Marechal (3 vols., 1892-1902); Raoul de See also:Cambrai (1882), with A . Longnon; Fragments d'une See also:vie da See also:Saint See also:Thomas de Cantorbery (1885); Guillaume de la See also:Barre (1894) .

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