MONOD, GABRIEL (1844 )

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MONOD, GABRIEL (1844 ) , French historian, was born at

Havre

HAVRE
HAVRE, LE

on the 7th of March, 1844. Adolphe Monod (q.v.) was his uncle. Having studied at

Havre

HAVRE
HAVRE, LE

, he went to Paris to complete his education, and whilst there lived with the family of De Pressense. The influence of Edmond de Pressense, a pastor and large-minded theologian, and of Madame de Pressense, a woman of superior intellect and refined feeling, who devoted her life to educational works and charity, made a

great

GREAT

impression on him. In 1865 he left the ecole normale superieure, and went to Germany, where he studied at Gottingen and Berlin. The teaching of George

Waitz

WAITZ, GEORG (1813-1886)
WAITZ, THEODOR (1821-1864)

definitely directed his studies towards the history of the middle ages. Returning to France in 1868 he was nominated by V. Duruy to give lectures on history, following the method used in German seminaries, at the ecole des hautes etudes. When the Franco-Prussian War broke out, Gabriel Monod, with his cousins, Alfred and Sarah Monod, organized an ambulance with which he followed the whole campaign, from

Sedan

SEDAN

to Mans. He wrote a small book of memoirs of this campaign, Allemands et francais (1871), in which he spoke of the conquerors without bitterness; this attitude was all the more praiseworthy as his mother was an Alsatian, and he was unable to resign himself to the loss of

Alsace

ALSACE (Ger. Elsass)

and Lorraine. The war being over he returned to teaching. At this period of his life he wrote Gregoire de Tours et Marius d'Avenche (1872); Fredegaire, whose history, taken from

original

ORIGINAL

MSS., he published in 1885; a

translation

TRANSLATION

of a book of W. Junghans, Histoire critique des regnes de Childerich et de Chlodovech, with introduction and notes (1879); Etudes critiques sur les sources de t'histoire carolingienne (1898, 1st part only published); and Bibliographic de l'histoire de France (1888). He himself said that his pupils were his best books; he intended to teach them not so much new facts as the way to study, endeavouring to develop in them an idea of criticism and truth. They showed their gratitude by dedicating a book to him in 1896, Etudes d'histoire du moyen dge, and after his retirement in 1go5 by having his features engraved on a slab (see to Gabriel
Monod, en souvenir de son enseignement: ecole pratique des hautes
etudes, 18681905, ecole normale superieure, 18801904. May
26, 1607). In 1875 he founded the Revue Historique, which
rapidly became a

great

GREAT

authority on scientific education. Some
of his articles in this and other

periodicals

PERIODICALS

have been put together in book form, Les Maitres de l'histoire:

Renan

RENAN, ERNEST (1823-1892)

, Taine,

Michelet

MICHELET, JULES (1798-1874)

(1894); Portraits et souvenirs (1897: on Hugo, Fust& de Coulanges, V. Duruy, &c.).

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