See also:ALEXIS PAULIN See also:PARIS (1800-x881)
, See also:French savant, was See also:born at Avenay (See also:Marne) on the 25th of See also:March 'Soo
.
He published in 1824 an Apologie pour l'ecole romantique, and took an active See also:part in Parisian journalism
.
His See also:appointment, in 1828, to the See also:department of See also:manuscripts in the Bibliotheque royale See also:left him leisure to pursue his studies in See also:medieval French literature
.
Paulin See also:Paris lived before See also:minute methods of See also:research had been generally applied to See also:modern literature, and his See also:chief merit is that by his numerous See also:editions of See also:early French poems he continued the See also:work begun by Dominique Meon in arousing See also:general See also:interest in the then little-known epics of See also:chivalry
.
Admitted to the Academie See also:des See also:Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in 1837, he was shortly afterwards appointed on the See also:commission entrusted with the continuation of the Histoire litteraire de la See also:France
.
In 1853 a See also:chair of medieval literature was founded at the See also:College de France, and Paulin Paris became the first occupant
.
He retired in 1872 with the See also:title of honorary See also:professor, and was promoted officer of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in the next See also:year
.
He died on the 13th of See also:February 188' in Paris
.
His See also:works include: Manuscrits See also:francais de la bibliothbque du roi (7 vols., 1836-1848); Li See also: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); See also: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 See also:biographical See also:notice to vol. See also:xxix. of the Histoire litteraire
.
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