Charles Petit-Dutaillis
Charles Petit-Dutaillis (born January 26, 1868 in Saint-Nazaire , † July 9, 1947 in Paris ) was a French medieval historian.
He was the son of the chief physician of the French navy Alexandre Petit and of Zoé Dutaillis. From 1898 he called himself Petit-Dutaillis.
Petit-Dutaillis attended the Lycée Henri IV (where he won a prize in philosophy in the competition for the elite universities in 1885) and studied in Paris at the Sorbonne with a licentiate in 1887 and at the École nationale des chartes (from 1886) with a degree as a palaeographer 1890. He then traveled to England, Germany and Italy for three years on a scholarship. In 1895 he received his doctorate from the Sorbonne with a Latin dissertation on the institutions in Sparta. In 1894 he was professor of history at the Lyceum in Troyes , taught medieval history at the University of Lille from 1895 (as Chargé de cours and from 1899 as professor) and was director of the higher commercial school in Lille (École supérieure de commerce de Lille) from 1899 to 1908 . In 1908 he went to the University of Grenoble, where he was director of the academy until 1916. In 1916/17 he was general inspector for basic education and from 1916 to 1938 director of the Office national des universités et des grandes écoles françaises (ONUEF). From 1920 until his retirement in 1936 he was also general inspector for secondary education.
He was involved in French history published by Ernest Lavisse at the end of the 19th century. Petit-Dutaillis dealt mainly with the history of the Middle Ages in England and France, especially social history.
He was a French patriot and was imprisoned by the Gestapo for three days in Fresnes prison in 1943 at the age of 75 .
In 1930 he became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres and in 1938 President of the Institut de France. He was president of the Société de l'École des chartes and the Société de l'histoire de France , a member of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society and commander of the Legion of Honor .
Fonts
- Études sur la vie et le règne de Louis VIII, 1187–1226, Paris, 1894. Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes-Études, No. 101 (= dissertation 1894)
- Le soulèvement des travailleurs d'Angleterre en 1831, 1898.
- Charles VII, Louis XI et les premières années de Charles VIII (1422–1492), in: E. Lavisse (ed.), Histoire de France, Paris, Hachette, 1902.
- Documents nouveaux sur les mœurs populaires et le droit de vengeance dans les Pays-Bas au XVe s., 1908.
- Le déshéritement de Jean sans Terre, Paris, F. Alcan, 1925.
- La monarchie féodale en France et en Angleterre, Xe - XIIIe siècle, Paris, la Renaissance du livre, 1933.
- L'essor des États d'Occident: France, Angleterre, Péninsule ibérique, in: Gustave Glotz (ed.), Histoire du Moyen Âge, Paris, PUF, 1937.
- Les Communes françaises, caractères et évolution des origines au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, A. Michel, 1945, 1970, 2008
Web links
- Information on Charles Petit-Dutaillis in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Idref
- Biography at the University of Lille (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petit-Dutaillis, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Nazaire |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1947 |
| Place of death | Paris |