Paul Raymond (archivist)

Course

Admitted in 1854 with the School of the charters, it left there Archiviste paleographer in 1857 thanks to a thesis entitled the plundering of the house and goods of the bishop (Ve-XIIIe century) . He was departmental archivist of the the Low-Pyrenees of his exit of the School of the charters until 1877. He was then named general secretary of the prefecture of the Low-Pyrenees.
He was also general secretary of the “Company of Sciences, Lettres and Arts of Pau” of 1871 to 1877, then president of this company in 1877. It was a republican convinced “ paying without slackening of its person in all works of public property and popular instruction. He was the heart of the Company of Sciences, Lettres and Arts of Pau and one of the most active members of the jury of the primary education examinations, of the popular Library, etc ”.

It was an untiring researcher who undertook a general inventory of the funds of the Archives of the Low-Pyrenees. From this research, it drew from many materials which were published or used in many works of historical research or linguistics.

It took part in the drafting of the topographic Dictionnaire of France , including/understanding the old and modern place names, published by order of the imperial Minister for the State education. The volume which it wrote, the topographic Dictionnaire of the department of the the Low-Pyrenees was published for the first time in 1863.

It also took part in the preparation of the Dictionnaire old and modern Béarnais published, under the aegis of Vastin Lespy, in 1887.

Writings

Instruments of research

These tools are at the disposal of the researchers in the rooms of reading of the Departmental records and the libraries.

summary Inventory of the departmental records former to 1790 , the Low-Pyrenees), 6 volumes large in-8°, Paris, P. Dupont.

I. civil Files, Series B, Nos 1-4537, 1863. II. Civil files, Series B, Nos 4538-7980, 1867. III. Civil files, Series C and D, 1865. IV. Civil files, Series E, Nos 1-1765, 1867. V. civil Files, Series E, Our 1766-2410, and Supplement with the Series E (communal records), 1763. VI. Ecclesiastical files, Series G and H, 1874.

topographic Dictionary of the department of the Low-Pyrenees , 1863, Paris, Imperial Printing works, XX-208 p.

Seals of the Files of the department of the Low-Pyrenees , 1874, L. Ribaut, 385 p., illustrations inset plate.

Published by V. Lespy, Dictionary old and modern inhabitant of Béarn , by V. Lespy and P. Raymond, 1887, Montpellier, impr. of Hamelin brothers, 2 vol. in-8°.

Studies

Notes on the intendance of Béarn and the States of this province, with the catalog of the noble houses , 1866, Paris.
Béarn under Gaston Phœbus , general enumeration of the houses of the Viscount of Béarn in 1385,1873, Pau.
In collaboration with Valentine Lespy, a baron inhabitant of Béarn at the fifteenth century, Gaston de Foix, lord of Coarraze, texts inhabitant of Béarn and texts in vulgar language , 1878, company of the bibliophiles of Béarn.

Accounts of holy history as inhabitant of Béarn, transl. and publ. for the first time on the manuscript of XVe century by V. Lespy and P. Raymond, company of the bibliophiles of Béarn.

Of very many other studies: to see the list in the Bulletin of the Company of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Pau , volume 8,1878-1879, p. 12-14, accessible on Gallica

External bonds

learned societies: a study on those of Aquitaine and the department of the Low-Pyrenees.

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