Henri Sauval

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Henri Sauval (5 March 1623 – 21 March 1676) was a French historian.

Biography[]

Sauval was the son of an advocate in the Parlement, he was born in Paris, and baptized on 5 March 1623. He devoted most of his life to researches among the archives of his native city, and in 1656 even obtained a licence to print his Paris ancien et moderne; but on his death (21 March 1676) the whole work was still in manuscript. A long time afterwards it appeared, thanks to his collaborator, , under the title of Histoire et recherches des antiquites de la ville de Paris (1724), but remodelled, with the addition of long and dull dissertations which were not by Sauval.[1]

The work was not without merits, and it was re-issued in 1733 and 1750. The original manuscript first belonged to , and then passed into the possession of , who prepared an annotated edition; unfortunately this material, together with the original MS., was lost in the incendiary fires which took place under the Paris Commune (1871). There remain, however, Le Roux de Lincy's researches, a series of articles on Sauval which appeared in the Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothcaire in 1862, 1866 and 1868.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sauval, Henri". Encyclopædia Britannica. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 239.

Further reading[]

  • Histoire et recherches des antiquites de la ville de Paris (3 volumes ed.). 1724. ( vol. 1, vol. 2, and vol 3 at Google Books)
  • Dufour, Valentin (1882). Bibliographie de Paris avant 1789.
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