MASSON, LOUIS CLAUDE FREDERIC (1847 )

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MASSON, LOUIS CLAUDE FREDERIC (1847 ) , French historian, was born at Paris on the 8th of March 1847. His father, Francis Masson, a solicitor, was killed on the 23rd of June 1848, when major in the garde nationale. Young Masson was educated at the college of Sainte Barbe, and at the lycee Louis-le-Grand, and then travelled in Germany and in England; from 1869 to 188o he was librarian at the Foreign Office. At first he devoted himself to the history of diplomacy, and published between 1877 and 1884 several volumes connected with that subject. Later he published a number of more or less curious memoirs illustrating the history of the Revolution and of the empire. But he is best known for his books connected with

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

. In

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

inconnu (1895), Masson, together with M. Guido Biagi, brought out the unpublished writings (17861793) of the future emperor. These were notes, extracts from historical, philosophical and literary books, and personal reflections in which one can watch the growth of the ideas later carried out by the emperor with modifications necessitated by the force of circumstances and his own genius. But this was only one in a remarkable

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

: Josephine de Beauharnais, 17631796 (1898) ; Josephine, imperatrice et rein (1899) ; Josephine repudiee 18091814 (1901) ; L'Imperatrice Marie Louise (1902); Napoleon et les femmes (1894); Napoleon et sa

famine

FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

(9 vols., 18971907); Napoleon et son fits (19o4); and Autour de l'Ple d'Elbe (1908). These works abound in details and amusing anecdotes, which throw much light on the events and men of the time, laying stress on the personal, romantic and dramatic aspects of history. The author was made a member of the Academie francaise in 1903. From 1886 to 1889 he edited the review Arts and Letters, published in London and New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

.
A bibliography of his works, including anonymous ones and those under an assumed name, has been published by G. Vicaire (Manuel de l'

amateur

AMATEUR (Lat. amator, lover)

des livres du XIX' siecle, tome v., 1904). Napoleon et les femmes has been translated into English as Napoleon and the

Fair

FAIR

Sex (1894).

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