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CHARLES BEMONT (1848— )
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BEMONT, CHARLES (1848— ), French . scholar, was born at Paris on the 16th of November 1848. In 1884 he graduated with two theses, Simon de Montfort and La Condamnation de Jean Sansterre (Revue historique, 1886). His Les Charles des libertes anglaises (1892) has an introduction upon the history of Magna Carta, &c., and his History of Europe from 395 to 1270, in BENARES collaboration with G. Monod, was translated into English. He was also responsible for the continuation of the Gascon Rolls, the publication of which had been begun by Francisque Michel in 1885 (supplement to vol. i., 1896; vol. ii., for the years 1273—1290, 1900; vol. iii., for the years 1290—1307, 1906). He received the honorary degree of Litt. Doc. at Oxford in 1909.