Jean-Baptiste of Curne of Holy-Palaye

Jean-Baptiste of Curne of Holy-Palaye , born the June 6th 1697 with Auxerre and dead March 1st 1781 with Paris, is a Historien and Philologue French.

Of a delicate health, Curne of Holy-Palaye began its traditional studies only at age the fifteen years, but it was delivered with as well heat and success to research érudites, as, as of 1724, it was received member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities at twenty-seven years and undertook the study of the chronicler S of the Moyen-âge which led it to seek the origin of the Chevalerie. Separately one last year near the king Stanislas, like in charge of the correspondence of the court of France with this prince, it was occupied almost exclusively, until beyond its eightieth year, study and examination of the manuscripts relating to the history of the language and French institutions. It collected in the various literary deposits of France as well as Italy, more 4000 notes of manuscripts and the copies of the most invaluable documents.

Its publications, which do not give the measurement of such a work, include/understand: Letter with Mr. de Bachaumont on the good taste in arts and the letters (1751), in-12; an edition of a French tale in verse, Loves of the good old day , Aucassin and Nicolette (Vaucluse, 1756, in-12), and especially its collection of Memories on the old knighthood , regarded as a political and military establishment. It is necessary to join the series of excellent to it and invaluable Mémoires, inserted in the collection of the Academy of the inscriptions (T. VII , X , XIII , XIV , XV , XVII , XX , XXIV ).

Curne of Holy-Palaye moreover left a hundred folio volumes of manuscripts, that divide the National library and that of the Arsenal, containing materials of a French Glossaire , of which it published itself the Projet (1756, in-4°) and of which it entrusted the execution to Georges-Jean Mouchet: of this important work, written into ten or twelve folio volumes, it was printed of alive sound only part of the volume the Ist impression was taken again by it at the century following (Paris, 1875).

Curne of Holy-Palaye was elected member of the French Academy in 1758.

Works

Letter with Mr. de Bachaumont on the good taste in arts and the letters (1751), in-12

Memories on old the Knighthood regarded as a political and military establishment . 1753.
historical Dictionary of the old French language

Source

Gustave Vapereau, universal Dictionary of the literatures , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 1809

External bond

Biographical note of the French Academy

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