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BRUNO PAULIN GASTON PARIS (1839-1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 803 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRUNO PAULIN GASTON See also:PARIS (1839-1903)  , See also:French See also:scholar, son of Paulin See also:Paris, was See also:born at Avenay (See also:Marne) on the 9th of See also:August 1839 . In his childhood Gaston Paris learned to appreciate the Old French romances as poems and stories, and this See also:early impulse to the study of See also:Romance literature was placed on a solid basis by courses of study at See also:Bonn (1856-1857) under See also:Friedrich See also:Diez, at See also:Gottingen (1857-1858) and finally at the Ecole See also:des Chartes (1858-1861) . His first important See also:work was an Etude sur le role de l'See also:accent latin clans la langue frangaise (1862) . The subject was See also:developed later in his Lettre d M . See also:Leon See also:Gautier sur la versification latine rhythmique (1866) . Gaston Paris maintained that French versification was a natural development of popular Latin methods which depended on accent rather than quantity, and were as widely different from classical rules as the See also:Low Latin was from the classical See also:idiom.' For his degree as See also:doctor he presented a thesis on the Histoire poetique de See also:Charlemagne (1865) . He succeeded his See also:father as See also:professor of See also:medieval French literature at the See also:College de See also:France in 1872; in 1876 he was admitted to the See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions and in 1886 to the French Academy; and in 1895 he was appointed director of the College de France . Gaston Paris won a See also:European reputation as a Romance scholar . He had learnt See also:German methods of exact See also:research, but besides being an accurate philologist he was a See also:literary critic of See also:great acumen and breadth of view, and brought a singularly clear mind to See also:bear on his favourite study of medieval French literature . His See also:Vie de See also:Saint-See also:Alexis (1872) See also:broke new ground and provided a See also:model for future editors of medieval texts . It included the See also:original See also:text and the See also:variations of it dating from the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries . Gaston Paris contributed largely to the Histoire litteraire de la France, and with See also:Paul See also:Meyer published Romania, a See also:journal devoted to the study of Romance literature .

Among his other numerous See also:

works may be mentioned See also:Les Plus anciens monuments de la langue frangaise (1875); a See also:Manuel d'ancien See also:Francais (1888); an edition of the Mystere de la See also:passion d'Arnoul Greban (1878), in collaboration with M . Gaston Raynaud; Delve redactions du See also:roman des See also:Sept sages de See also:Rome (1876); a See also:translation of the Grammaire des langues See also:romans (1874-1878) of Friedrich Diez, in collaboration with MM . Brachet and See also:Morel-Fatio . Among his works of a more popular nature are La Poesie du moyen dge (1885 and 189J); Penseurs et pates (1897); Fames et legendes du moyen dge (1900); See also:Francois See also:Villon (1901), an admirable monograph contributed to the " Grande Ecrivains Francais " See also:series; Legendes du moyen dge (1903) . His excellent See also:summary of medieval French literature forms a See also:volume of the See also:Temple Primers . Gaston Paris endeared himself to a wide circle of scholars outside his own See also:country by his unfailing urbanity and generosity . In France itself he trained at the Ecole des Chartes and the College de France a See also:band of disciples who continued the traditions of exact research that he established . Among them were: See also:Leopold See also:Pannier; See also:Marius Sepet, the author of Le Drame chretien au moyen dge . (1878) and of the Origines catholiques du See also:theatre moderne (1901); See also:Charles Joret; See also:Alfred Morel-Fatio; Gaston Raynaud, who is responsible for various volumes of the excellent See also:editions published by the Societe des anciens textes frangais; Arsene See also:Darmesteter and others . Gaston Paris died in Paris on the 6th of See also:March 1903 . See " Hommage a Gaston Paris " (1903), the opening lecture of his successor, See also:Joseph Bedier, in the See also:chair of medieval literature at the College de France; A . See also:Thomas, Essais de philologie frangaise (1897); W .

P . Kee, in the Fortnightly See also:

Review (See also:July . *904); M . Croiset, See also:Notice sur Gaston Paris (1904) ; J . Bedier et M . Roques, Bibliographie des travaux de Gaston Paris (1904) .

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