JEAN

See also:

• MAURICE (1521–1553)
• MAURICE (MAURICIUS FLAVIUS TIBERIUS) (c. 539–602)
• MAURICE [or MAURITIUS], ST (d. c. 286)
• MAURICE, JOHN FREDERICK DENISON (1805-1872)

MAURICE

See also:

• JEAN MAURICE TOURNEUX (1849— )

TOURNEUX (1849— )  , French man of letters and bibliographer, son of the artist and author J . F . E . Tourneux, was born in Paris on the 12th of July 1849 . He began his career as a bibliographer by collaborating in new editions of the Supercheries litteraires of Joseph Querard and the Dictionnaire des anonymes of Antoine Barbier . His most important bibliographical work was the Bibliographie de l'histoire de Paris pendant la revolution francaise (3 vols . 1890-19o1), which was crowned by the Academy of Inscriptions . This valuable work serves as a guide for the history of the city beyond the limits of the Revolution . His other works include bibliographies of Prosper M6rimee (1876), of Theophile Gautier (1876), of the brothers de Goncourt (1897) and others; also editions of F . M . Grimm's Correspondence litteraire, of Diderot's Neveu de Rameau (1884), of Montesquieu's Lettres persanes (1886), &c .