Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France
The Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France (RHGF) is a compilation in which the sources on French history have been compiled. It began in the 1720s, and work on the 24th volume was not completed until 180 years later.
The collection was initially edited by Dom Martin Bouquet (1685–1754), under whose authorship the first eight volumes appeared from 1738–1752. Another eleven volumes were looked after by other monks and appeared until 1828. These 19 volumes were reissued unchanged from 1873 in terms of text and page layout. The series was completed by the Institut de France , which published further volumes from 1840. The last volume, Volume 24, which closed the 13th century, was published in 1904. In 2005, the Recueil des Historiens was put online by the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
predecessor
As early as the 16th century attempts had been made to collect sources on French history. Pierre Pithou († 1596) had compiled material, André Duchesne († 1640) started a 24-volume work entitled "Historiæ Francorum Scriptores", which only made it to volume 5 due to his death. In 1717 a new attempt was made, which in turn came to an end in 1721 with the death of the commissioner. It was only Dom Bouquet's work that continued after his death.
Volumes
Edited by Dom Bouquet:
- Volume 1 (1738, new edition 1873), online
- Volume 2 (1739, new edition 1869), Google , Gallica (new edition)
- Volume 3 (1741, new edition 1869), online
- Volume 4 (1743, new edition 1869), online
- Volume 5 (1744, new edition 1869), online
- Volume 6 (1748, new edition 1870), online
- Volume 7 (around 1750, new edition 1870), online
- Volume 8 (1752, new edition 1870), online
- Volume 9 (Dom Bouquet et alii, 1752, new edition 1870) online
- Volume 10 (Jean-Baptiste Haudiquier, Charles Haudiquier, Étienne Housseau, Jacques Précieux, Germain Poirier, 1760, new edition 1874), online
- Volume 11 (Jean-Baptiste Haudiquier, Charles Haudiquier, Étienne Housseau, Jacques Précieux, Germain Poirier, 1767, new edition 1876) online
- Volume 12 ( François Clément , Michel-Jean-Joseph Brial, 1781, new edition 1877), online
- Volume 13 (François Clément, Michel-Jean-Joseph Brial, 1786, new edition 1879), online
- Volume 14 (Michel-Jean-Joseph Brial, 1806, new edition 1877), online
- Volume 15 (Michel-Jean-Joseph Brial, 1808, new edition 1878), online
- Volume 16 (Michel-Jean-Joseph Brial, 1814, new edition 1878), online
- Volume 17 (Michel-Jean-Joseph Brial, 1818, new edition 1878), online
- Volume 18 (Michel-Jean-Joseph Brial, 1822, new edition 1878), online
- Volume 19 (Michel-Jean-Joseph Brial, 1828, new edition 1880), online
- Volume 20 (Pierre-Claude-François Daunou, Joseph Naudet, 1840) online
- Volume 21 (Natalis de Wailly, Joseph-Daniel Guigniaut, 1855) online
- Volume 22 ( Léopold Delisle , Natalis de Wailly, 1860), online
- Volume 23 (Léopold Delisle, Charles-Marie-Gabriel Bréchillet Jourdain, Natalis de Wailly, 1894), online
- Volume 24 (Léopold Delisle, 1904), online