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FRANCISQUE See also:XAVIER See also:MICHEL (1809-1887) , See also:French See also:antiquary, was See also:born at See also:Lyons on the 18th of See also:January 18o9 . He became known for his See also:editions of French See also:works of the See also:middle ages, and the French See also:Government, recognizing their value, sent him to See also:England (1833) and See also:Scotland (1837) to continue his researches there . In 1839 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:foreign literature in the Faculte See also:des lettres at See also:Bordeaux . Between 1834 and 1842 he published editions of a large number of works written between the See also:eleventh and fourteenth centuries in French, See also:English and Saxon, including the See also:Roman de la See also:rose and the Chanson de See also:Roland . Subsequently he published French See also:translations of See also:Goldsmith, See also:Sterne, See also:Shakespeare and See also:Tennyson . He died in See also:Paris on the 18th of May 1887 . His See also:original works include Histoire des races maudites de la See also:France et de l'Espagne (1847) ; Recherches sur le See also:commerce See also:pendant le rroyen See also:age (1852-1854); See also:Les Ecossais en France et les See also:francais en Ecosse (1862); Etudes de philologie comparee sur l'argot (1856); Le Pays basque (18571; Histoire du commerce et de la See also:navigation a Bordeaux (1867-1871); and, in See also:conjunction with Edouard See also:Fournier, Histoire des hotelleries, cabarets, hotels garnis (1851-1854) . |
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