Pierre de Nolhac (December 15th 1859 with Ambert - January 31st 1936 with Paris) is a historian, historian of art and poet French.

After studies with Rodez and Clermont-Ferrand, it comes to Paris to follow courses to the Sorbonne and the practical École of the high studies where it will be later university lecturer. It is named preserving with the museum of Versailles in 1892, then directing of the Musée Jacquemart-Andre in 1920.

Its action with the museum of the castle of Versailles was determining, since it largely contributed to modernize this one and to reconstitute the collections, in particular for the furniture which had been dispersed during the French revolution.

Pierre de Nolhac left a very abundant work devoted in major part to the history, in particular with the Humanisme during the Renaissance. Indeed, member of the French School of Rome (1882-1885), it discovered with the Bibliothèque Vaticane new manuscripts of Pétrarque which enabled him to advance knowledge about it.

Pierre de Nolhac also devoted several works to the queen Marie-Antoinette and the Château of Versailles.

Its work as poet was rather largely recognized in its time, in particular by his/her friend the Italian poet Gabriele d' Annunzio. He is elected member of the French Academy in 1922.

Works

• 1882 last love of Ronsard
• 1883 Letters of Joachim Of Bellay published for the first time according to the originals
• 1886 Canzoniere autograph of Pétrarque
• the 1887 library of Fulvio Orsini. Small notes on the Italian art
• 1888 Erasme in Italy. Greek studies of Pétrarque. Correspondents of Alde Manuce. New materials of literary history (1483-1514)
• the 1889 castle of Versailles at the time of Marie-Antoinette. Piero Vettori and Carlo Sigonio, correspondence with Fulvio Orsini. The queen Marie-Antoinette
• 1890 instructions of Marie-Antoinette in Small Trianon. The " Of viris illustribus" of Pétrarque, note on the original manuscripts, followed new fragments. It viaggio in Italia di Enrico III, Re di Francia, E the feste has Venezia, Ferrara, Mantova E Torin
• 1892 De Patrum and bledii Aevi scriptorum codicibus in Bibliotheca Petrarcae olim collectis, thesis. Pétrarque and Humanism, thesis
• 1893 Marie-Antoinette with Trianon
• 1894 Landscapes of France and Italy. Pietro Bembo and Lazare de Baïf
• the 1896 castle of Versailles museum of decorative art. The Dauphine Marie-Antoinette
• the 1897 Museum of Versailles. Virgile of the Vatican and its paintings
• the 1898 first French work on Euripide: translation of François Tissard. The castle of Versailles under Louis XV
• 1899 last constructions of Vau in Versailles
• 1899-1900 History of the castle of Versailles
• 1900 the water alley of the gardens of Versailles. Louis XV and Marie Leszczynska
• 1901 porcelain Trianon. The creation of Versailles
• 1903 Louis XV and Madam de Pompadour
• 1904 Poems of France and Italy
• 1905 Jean Marc Nattier
• 1906 gardens of Versailles
• 1907 François Butcher. The Sonnets
• 1910 Jean-Honore Fragonard
• 1911 Versailles under Louis XIV
• 1918 Versailles at the XVIIIe century
• 1920 Worms for the Fatherland
• 1921 Ronsard and Humanism
• 1922 Memories of an old man Romain
• 1923 a friendly Rhenish poet of the Pleiad: Paul Melissu
• 1924 Studies on the Court of France. Trianon of Marie-Antoinette. Pierre de Ronsard
• 1925 Pascal in Auvergne. Unknown Versailles
• 1928 the will of Latin. The art of the miniature at Pétrarque
• 1929 Around the Queen
• 1930 life and the work of Maurice Quentin de Latour
• 1931 auvergnates Pages. Art in Versailles
• 1932 philosophical Tales. Laus Florentiae, idiot the versione italiana di Adolfo Mabellini
• 1933 the gold branch

Sources

Pierre de Nolhac, the resurrection of Versailles, Memories of a conservative, 1887-1920 , presented and annotated by Christophe Pincemaille, coll the company of the friends of Versailles, Paris, Perrin, 2002,251p.

External bond

• Biographical note of the French Academy