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Ludovic Lalanne

Ludovic Lalanne

French historian and librarian

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Ludovic Lalanne (23 April 1815, Paris – 16 May 1898, Paris) was a French historian and librarian. The engineer and politician Léon Lalanne (1811–1892) was his brother.

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Biography

Lalanne was a student at the lycée Louis-le-Grand and later at the École des Chartes, where he was graduated archivist paleographer in 1841. He was librarian of the Institut.

He was a resident member of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, archivist of the Société de l'École des chartes and president of the Société de l'histoire de France.[1]

Publications

Lalanne published many works (sometimes in collaboration) including:

  • Essai sur le feu grégeois et sur la poudre à canon, 1845[2]
  • Les Pèlerinages en Terre Sainte avant les Croisades, 1845
  • Curiosités littéraires, 1845
  • Curiosités bibliographiques, 1845
  • Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris sous François Ier (1515–1536), 1854
  • Curiosités philologiques, géographiques et ethnologiques, 1855
  • Les Tragiques d'Augrippa d'Abigné, 1857
  • Mémoires de Marguerite de Valois, 1858
  • Curiosités biographiques, 1858
  • Œuvres de Malherbe, 1862
  • Dictionnaire historique de la France, 1872–77
  • Mémoires de Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, 1882
  • Le Livre de fortune de Jehan Cousin, recueil de deux cents dessins inédits, 1883
  • Œuvres complètes de Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, 1864–82
  • Journal du voyage du Cavalier Bernin en France, 1885
  • Œuvres de Lagrange, 1892
  • Brantôme sa vie et ses écrits, 1896

Lalanne also realised the inventory of the manuscripts of Paris Observatory Library.

References

  1. [1]
    See his file in the annuaire prosopographique of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques.
  2. [2]
    read online, like most of his other writings :
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