Gaston Raynaud Explained

Gaston Raynaud (14 April 1850, Paris – 28 July 1911, Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French philologist and librarian .[1]

Biography

Raynaud entered the École Nationale des Chartes in 1870. In 1875, he graduated as archivist-paleographer. The subject of his thesis was the study of the Picard dialect in Ponthieu in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This work was favorably viewed by his advisors Natalis de Wailly and Paul Meyer, evaluating it as an excellent analysis of phonetic phenomena and grammatical rules. Published the following year in the Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, the study on the dialect of Ponthieu earned Raynaud the fourth mention in the Antiquities of France competition at the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. The same year saw the related works of Léon Clédat's[2] on Bertran de Born and of Jacques Normand[3] on a chanson de geste, Aiol and Mirabel. Normand joined forces with Raynaud and Clédat for the overhaul of his thesis in Aoil: chanson de geste.[4] He also collaborated with Gaston Paris on the work Mystère de la passion d'Arnould Gréban (1878), concerning the works of organist Arnoul Gréban.[5]

In 1876, Raynaud joined the department of manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale, remaining for nearly fourteen years. In 1889, he left the library to devote himself more freely to his favorite works. These included being administrator and the editor of the considerable work of the fourteenth century poet Eustache Deschamps. In 1882, he collaborated with Henri-Victor Michelant on the Itinéraires à Jérusalem et descriptions de la Terre Sainte, rédigés en français aux XIe, XIIe [et] XIIIe siècles; in 1887, Les Gestes des Chiprois, a collection of French chronicles written in the East in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the work of Gérard de Montréal and Philippe de Navarre.

Publications

Selected publications of Gaston Raynaud include the following.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Lelong Eugène. Gaston Raynaud (1850-1911). In: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes. 1911, tome 72. pp. 427-436.
  2. Bibliothèque nationale de France . "Léon Clédat (1851-1930)".
  3. Bibliothèque nationale de France . "Jacques Normand (1848-1931)".
  4. Normand, J., Raynaud, G., Normand, J. Clary Jean. (1877). Aiol; chanson de geste. Paris: Firmin Didot et cie.
  5. Gréban, A., Raynaud, G., Paris, G. Bruno Paulin. (1878). Le mystère de la passion d'Arnould Greban. Paris: F. Vieweg.
  6. Bibliothèque nationale de France . "Gaston Raynaud (1850-1911)".
  7. Raynaud, Gaston. “Étude sur le dialecte picard dans le Ponthieu, d'après les chartes des xiii et xiv siècles.” Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, vol. 37, Librairie Droz, 1876, pp. 5–34,
  8. Montaiglon, A. de., Raynaud, G. (1872). Recueil général et complet des fabliaux des XIIIe et XIVe siècles imprimés ou inédits. Paris: Librairie des bibliophiles.
  9. Le Cabinet historique, XXIV (1878), documents, pp. 144–154.
  10. Le Cabinet historique, XXIV (1878), catalogues, pp. 259–261; un complément de cet inventaire a paru dans le Cabinet historique, XXV (1879), catalogues, pp. 216–217,
  11. Michelant, H. Victor, Raynaud, G. (1882). Itinéraires à Jérusalem et descriptions de la Terre Sainte rédigés en français aux XIe, XIIe & XIIIe siècles. Genève.
  12. Gérard de Monréal, Filippo, d. Novara, Raynaud, G. (1887). Les gestes des Chiprois: recueil de chroniques françaises écrites en Orient au XIIIe & XVIe siècles. Genève.
  13. Raynaud, G., Röhricht, R. (1884). Annales de Terre Sainte, 1095-1291. Paris.