Bordier, Henri Leonard

Reformed Church of France, layman; b. in Paris, in the year 1817 educated at the Ecole de droit and the Ecole des Chartes in Paris, and licensed in law, and as pal seo graphic archivist in 1840; but has ever since devoted himself to historical studies. He was succe ively, for a time, a istant to the historian August in Thierry; a istant in the Academy of Inscriptions; secretary par interim of the Ecole des Chartes; a member of the commi ion on the departmental archives of the minister of the interior (1846), archivist of the national archives (1850), dismi ed on the establishment of the Empire. He was, during the siege of Paris, on t 264 he commi ion upon the papers of the Tuileries; and in 1872 nominated honorary librarian in the department of manuscripts in the National Library. He has been for many years on the committee, of the " Societe d'his to ire du protestant is me franc a is." He is the author of numerous works, noted for their great accuracy. Among them may be mentioned: various notices in the Bibliotheque de I'e'coledes Chartes, Paris, 1841-86: His to ire generate de to us les depots d'archives exislant en France, 1855 Les e'glises et mon a steres de Paris, 1856; an edition of Libri miraculorum aliaque opera minor a of Gregory of Tours, Latin text with French translation, 1857-64, 4 vols.; a French translation of the Hist or i a Francorum of Gregory of Tours, 1859-61, 2 vols.; (with Ed. Chart on) His to ire de France, 1859-61; Les invent a ires des archives de VEmpire, 1867; Une fabrique de faux autographes, 1869; Chansonnier huguenot du seizieme siecle, 1869; L'Allemagne aux Tuileries, de 1850 a 1870, 1872 La Saint Barthelemy et la critique moderne, Geneva, 1879; L'e'cole hist or i que de Jerome Bolsec, Paris, 1880; Nicolas Cas tell in de Tournay, refugie a Geneve (1564-1576), 1881; is re-i uing with enlargements and corrections, the brothers Eugene and Emile Haag's La France protest ante (original ed., Paris, 1848-59, 10 vols.), Paris, 1877 sqq. erlautert, Erlangen, 1886 sq.