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Jean Baptiste de la Curne de Sainte-Palaye Fonds
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CA RBD MSG 34
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1768 (Creation)
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- La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Jean-Baptiste de, 1697-1781
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43 cm of textual records
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(1697-1781)
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An antiquarian and philologist, Sainte-Palaye was born in Auxerre and was privately educated. After a short period in the diplomatic service (1725-1726), he devoted himself completely to literature. He published some studies on the classics, but his most important work is on French antiquities. Sainte-Palaye wrote a glossary of Old French, became a collector of texts and was the author of some of the first research in medieval historiography. His unpublished Dictionnaire des antiquités françaises comprised 40 volumes.
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Contains six manuscript volumes of extracts concerning French antiquities from manuscripts by de la Curne de Ste Palaye and Denis-François Secousse.
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H69.B34
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72009815