Francisque Michel

Francisque Michel , born François-Xavier Michel with Lyon the February 18th 1809 and died in Paris the May 18th 1887, is a Philologue and Médiéviste French.

Francisque Michel was made known by its editions of medieval works. Recognizing the value of its work, the French government sends it in 1833 to continue its research in England then in Scotland in 1837. In 1839, it is named professor of foreign literature to the Faculty of Arts of the Université of Bordeaux.

It publishes, between 1834 and 1842, much of written works of the S in French, English and Saxon, of which the Romance of the Rose and the Song of Roland .

It then published French translations of Goldsmith, Sterne, Shakespeare and Tennyson. One counts, with the number of his original works:

History of the cursed races of France and Spain (1847)
Research on the trade during the Middle Ages (1852-1854)
the Scot in France and French in Scotland (1862)
Studies of philology compared on the slang (1856)
Basque Country (1857)
History of the trade and navigation in Bordeaux (1867-1871)
with Edouard Baker, History of hotel trades, cabarets, hotels furnished (1851-1854)

References

William Sticks. Notable First and Otherwise Editions off Medieval French Texts Printed from 1742 to 1874: In Bibliographical My Collection Catalogs off. Sitges: Stick & Contreras, 2005.

External bonds

Studies of philology compared on the slang and the similar idioms spoken in Europe and Asia, Bookstore of Firmin Didot Brothers, Wire and Co , Paris, 1856.

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