Auguste Molinier

Auguste Molinier (30 September 185119 May 1904) was a French historian. Biography Born in Toulouse, Auguste Molinier was a student at the École Nationale des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at the École pratique des hautes études; and he obtained appointments in the public libraries at the Mazarine (1878), at Fontainebleau (1884), and at Sainte-Geneviève, of which he was nominated librarian in 1885. He was a good palaeographer and had a thorough knowledge of archives and manuscripts; and he soon won a first place among scholars of the history of medieval France. His thesis on leaving the École des Chartes was his (inserted in vol. xxxiv of the ), an important contribution to the history of the Albigenses. This marked him out as a capable editor for the new edition of by Dom Vaissète: he superintended the reprinting of the text, adding notes on the feudal administration of this province from 900 to 1250, on the government of Alphonse of Toulouse, brother of St Louis (1220–1271), and on the historical geography of the province of Languedoc in the Middle Ages. He also wrote a , which was awarded a prize by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, but remained in manuscript. He also published several documents for the Société de l'Orient Latin (, in collaboration with Carolus Kohler, 1885); for the Société de l'Histoire de France (, assisted by his brother Émile, 1883); for the (, by Suger, 1887); for the (, 1894–1900); for the Recueil des historiens de la France ( 1904, 1906), etc., and several volumes in the .