Charles-Victor Langlois

Charles-Victor Langlois (May 26, 1863, in Rouen - June 25, 1929, in Paris) was a French historian and paleographer, who specialized in the study of the Middle Ages and taught at the Sorbonne.

Langlois attended the École Nationale des Chartes and earned a doctorate in history in 1887. He taught at the University of Douai before moving to the Sorbonne. He was director of the National Archives of France from 1913 to 1929.

His 1897 work Introduction aux études historiques, written with Charles Seignobos, is considered one of the first comprehensive manuals discussing the use of scientific techniques in historical research.^[1]

Bibliography

• Le Règne de Philippe III le Hardi (1887) Text freely available in gallica.bnf.fr
• Les Archives de l’histoire de France, in collaboration with Henri Stein (1891)
• Introduction aux études historiques, in collaboration with Charles Seignobos (1897) Text freely available in Les Classiques des sciences sociales
• Manuel de bibliographie historique (1901, 1904) Text freely available in gallica.bnf.fr
• La Connaissance de la nature et du monde au Moyen Âge (1911) Text freely available in gallica.bnf.fr
• Saint-Louis, Philippe le Bel, les derniers Capétiens directs (1911) Text freely available in gallica.bnf.fr
• La Vie en France au Moyen Âge : de la fin du XIIe au milieu du XIVe siècle (1927)

References

1. ^ Seeing History | Langlois et Seignobos

• University of Quebec profile (French)
• R. Fawtier, "Charles Victor Langlois", The English Historical Review, vol. 45, no. 177, Jan. 1930, pp. 85-91
• Britannica Online entry

Further reading

• Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Charles-Victor Langlois (1863-1929) par A. Merlin, CRAI, Institut de France, 1949, p. 1394-409.

External links

• Works by Charles Victor Langlois at Project Gutenberg

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Name	Langlois, Charles-Victor
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Date of birth	May 26, 1863
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Date of death	June 25, 1929
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