See also:HENRI See also:SAUVAL (1623–1676)
, See also:French historian, son of an See also:advocate in the See also:Parlement, was See also:born in See also:Paris, and baptized on the 5th of See also:March 1623
.
He devoted most of his See also:life to researches among the archives of his native See also:city, and in 1656 even obtained a See also:licence to See also:print his Paris ancien et moderne; but on his See also:death (21st March 1676) the whole See also:work was still in See also:manuscript
.
A See also:long See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time afterwards it appeared, thanks to his collaborator, See also:Claude See also:Bernard See also:Rousseau, under the See also:title of Histoire et recherches See also:des antiquites de la ville de Paris (1724), but remodelled, with the addition of long and dull See also:dissertations which were not by Sauva1
.
The work was not without merits, and it was re-issued in 1733 and 1750
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The See also:original manuscript first belonged to Montmerque, and then passed into the See also:possession of Le Roux de Lincy, who prepared an annotated edition; unfortunately this material, together with the original MS., was lost in the incendiary fires which took See also:place under the See also:Commune (1871)
.
There remain, however, Le Roux de Lincy's researches, a See also:series of articles on See also:Sauval which appeared in the Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothecaire in 1862, 1866 and 1868
.
See also the Bibliographie de Paris avant 1789, by the See also:Abbe Valentin See also:Dufour (1882)
.
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