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Gaston ParisBruno Paulin Gaston Paris (August 9, 1839 - March 6, 1903), was a French scholar, the son of Alexis Paulin Paris. Gaston Paris was born at Avenay (Marne). In his childhood,he learned to appreciate the Old French romances as poems and stories, and this early impulse to the study of Romance literature was placed on a solid basis by courses of study at Bonn (1856-1857) under Friedrich Diez, at Gttingen (1857-1858) and finally at the Ecole des Charles (1858-1861). His first important work was an tude sur le rle de l'accent Latin dans la langue franaise (1862). The subject was developed later in his Lettre M. Len Gautier sur la versification latine rhythmique (1866). Gaston Paris maintained that French versification was a natural development of popular Latin methods which depended on accent rather than quantity, and were as widely different from classical rules as the Low Latin was from the classical idiom. For his degree as doctor he presented a thesis on the Histoire politique de Charlemagne (1865). He succeeded his father as professor of medieval French literature at the Collge de France in 1872; in 1876 he was admitted to the Academy of Inscriptions and in 1896 to the Acadmie franaise; and in 1895 he was appointed director of the Collge de France. Gaston Paris won a European reputation as a Romance scholar. He had learnt German methods of exact research, but besides being an accurate philologist he was a literary critic of great acumen and breadth of view, and brought a singularly clear mind to bear on his favourite study of medieval French literature. His Vie de Saint-Alexis (1872) broke new ground and provided a model for future editors of medieval texts. It included the original text and the variations of it dating from the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. Gaston Paris contributed largely to the Histoire littraire de la France, and with Paul Meyer published Romania, a journal devoted to the study of Romance literature. Among his other numerous works may be mentioned: - Les Plus anciens monuments de la langue franaise (1875)
- a Manuel d'ancien Franais (1888)
- an edition of the Mystre de la passion d'Arnoul Greban (1878), in collaboration with Gaston Raynaud
- Deux rdactions du roman des sept sages de Rome (1876)
- a translation of the Grammaire des langues romanes (1874-1878) of Friedrich Diez, in collaboration with MM. Brachet and Morel-Fatio.
Among his works of a more popular nature are: - La Posie du Moyen ge (1885 and 1895)
- Penseurs et potes (1897)
- Pomes et lgendes du moyen ge (1900)
- Franois Villon (1901), an admirable monograph contributed to the "Grands crivains Franais" series
- Legendes du Moyen ge (1903).
His excellent summary of medieval French literature forms a volume of the Temple Primers. Gaston Paris endeared himself to a wide circle of scholars outside his own country by his unfailing urbanity and generosity. In France itself he trained at the cole des Charles and the College de France a band of disciples who continued the traditions of exact research that he established. Among them were: Leopold Pannier; Marius Sepet, the author of Le Drame chrtien au Moyen ge (1878) and of the Origines catholiques du thtre moderne (1901); Charles Joret; Alfred Morel-Fatio; Gaston Raynaud, who is responsible for various volumes of the excellent editions published by the Socits anciens textes franais; Arsne Darmesteter and others. See "Hommage Gaston Paris" (1903), the opening lecture of his successor, Joseph Bedier, in the chair of medieval literature at the College de France; A Thomas, Essais de philologie franaise (1897); WP Ker, in the Fortnightly Review (July 1904); M Croiset, Notice sur Gaston Paris (1904); J Bedier et M Roques, Bibliographie des travaux de Gaston Paris (1904). Paris, Gaston Paris, Gaston Paris, Gaston
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