Arcisse de Caumont

Arcisse de Caumont , born the August 20th 1801 with Bayeux and dead the April 16th 1873 with Caen, is a Archéologue French.

Biography

Wire of François de Caumont and Marie-Louise Hoots of Mathan, Arcisse de Caumont founded the Société of the antique dealers of Normandy and the Société linnéenne of Normandy in 1823, the French company of archeology in 1833, Association Norman and the Société for the conservation of the monuments. Nonglad to have found many members with these various associations, Arcisse de Caumont dealt with putting in direct relationships the various members who composed them and giving to each one the opportunity to express its opinions and to develop its ideas. It was also occupied to organize archaeological congresses, then scientific congresses which, answering the aspirations of its time, were greatest success.

Arcisse de Caumont thus gave a its rise to a intellectual movement which was propagated in very whole France and which resulted in the foundation of a crowd of learned societies or literary, of which each one has a library today, files and some even a museum.

Work of Arcisse de Caumont made it possible the Gothic rebirth to begin in France on reliable intellectual bases. Its extremely required works were worth the honor to him to be named corresponding of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities.

Arcisse de Caumont composed more than thirty volumes on archeology and it contributed in the most active way to the publication of approximately two hundred volumes of reports and memories of the congresses of the companies of which he was the founder. Its philosopher's stone is monumental the Cours of monumental antiquities: history of art in the west of France, since the times most moved back until the covering the religious architectures, civil and soldier of the Gallo-Roman era with the the Middle Ages, published 1830 with 1841.

Died in 1873, it was buried in the cemetery Midsummer's Day in Vaucelles, a suburb of Caen.

A college of its birthplace and a street of Caen received its name.

Works

Alphabetical or rudiment of archeology , Caen, F. the White-Hardel, 1869 heraldic
Alphabetical, or, general Concepts on the blazon , Caen, A. Hardel, 1861
Archeology of the elementary schools , Caen, the White-Hardel, 1868
Course of monumental antiquities professed in Caen, in 1830 , (1st part: Celtic antiquities; 2nd part and 3rd part: Gallo-Roman antiquities; Religious architecture; 5th part: Military architecture; 6th part: State of painting, penmanship, goldsmithery and other arts at the time of the Middle Ages), Paris, Lange, 1830-41
Test on the geognostic topography of the department of the Apple-brandy , Caen, Chalopin, 1828
History of the religious architecture to the Middle Ages , Paris, Derache, 1841
summary History of the religious architecture, civil and military with the Middle Ages , Paris, Lance, 1836
Inauguration of a Dives monument in memory of the departure of the army of Guillaume-the-Bastard for the conquest of England in 1066 , Caen, A. Hardel, 1861
the Valley the Divine ones: statistics ripuaire Paris, LMBO Universis, 1853, reprint 1992
the butter of Isigny to Monaco , Caen, F. the White-Hardel, 1869
the Wall of Laudunum , Caen, 1868
geological Memory: on some grounds of Western Normandy , Caen, Chalopin Wire, 1825
Memories of the Company linnéenne of Normandy , Paris, Lance, 1829
verbal Report/ratio submitted at the French company for the conservation of the monuments in the administrative meeting of Dec. 7, 1844, on some antiquities of the South of France , Caen, 1845
Statistical monumental of the Apple-brandy , Caen, the White-Hardel, 1846-67
Statistical road of Basse-Normandie , Paris, Derache, 1855.
It created the college Arcisse de Caumont in Bayeux

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