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French historian

Paul Marie ViolletPaul Marie Viollet
Born 24 October 1840Tours, now Centre-Val de Loire, France
Died 22 November 1914 (aged 74)Paris, France
Occupation historian

Paul Marie Viollet (24 October 1840 in Tours, France – 22 November 1914 in Paris) was a French historian.

After serving his native city as secretary and archivist, he became archivist at the Archives impériales in Paris in 1866, and later librarian to the faculty of law. On June 7, 1890 he was appointed professor of civil and canon law at the École Nationale des Chartes. His work mainly concerned the history of law and institutions, and on this subject he published two scholarly books Droit public: Histoire des institutions politiques et administratives de la France (1890–98), and Précis de l'histoire du droit français (1886).[1]

  1. ^ Chisholm 1911.

Attribution: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Viollet, Paul Marie". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 107.