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