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ALEXIS PAULIN PARIS (1800-x881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 803 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXIS PAULIN PARIS (1800-x881)  , French savant, was born at Avenay (
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Marne) on the 25th of March 'Soo . He published in 1824 an Apologie pour l'ecole romantique, and took an active
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part in Parisian journalism . His appointment, in 1828, to the department of
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manuscripts in the Bibliotheque royale
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left him leisure to pursue his studies in
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medieval French literature . Paulin Paris lived before minute methods of research had been generally applied to
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modern literature, and his chief merit is that by his numerous
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editions of early French poems he continued the
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work begun by Dominique Meon in arousing general
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interest in the then little-known epics of chivalry . Admitted to the Academie
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des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in 1837, he was shortly afterwards appointed on the commission entrusted with the continuation of the Histoire litteraire de la France . In 1853 a chair of medieval literature was founded at the College de France, and Paulin Paris became the first occupant . He retired in 1872 with the title of honorary professor, and was promoted officer of the Legion of Honour in the next
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year . He died on the 13th of
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February 188' in Paris . His
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works include: Manuscrits francais de la bibliothbque du roi (7 vols., 1836-1848); Li Romans di Garin le Loherain, precede d'un examen des romans carlovingiens (1883–1885) ; Li Romans de Berte ;ux grans pies (1832); Le Romancero frangais, histoire de quelquesanciens trouveres et choix de leurs chansons (1833) ; an edition of the Grandes chroniques de France (1836-184o): La Chanson d'Antioche (1848);
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Les Aventures de maitre Renart et d'Ysengrin (1861) and Les Romans de la table ronde (1868-1877), both put into modern French . His son Gaston Paris contributed a
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biographical
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notice to vol.
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xxix. of the Histoire litteraire .

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