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Gabriel-henri GaillardGabriel-Henri Gaillard (1726 - February 13, 1806), French historian, was born at Ostel, Picardy. He was educated for the bar, but after finishing his studies adopted a literary career, ultimately devoting his chief attention to history. He was already a member of the Academy of Inscriptions and, Belles-lettres (1760), when, after the publication of the three first volumes of his Histoire de la rivalit de la France et d'Angleterre, he was elected to the French Academy (1771); and when Napoleon created the Institute he was admitted into its third class (Acadmie franaise) in 1803. For forty years he was the intimate friend of Malesherbes, whose life (1805) he wrote. He died at St Firmin, near Chantilly, on the 13th of February 1806. Gaillard is painstaking and impartial in his statement of facts, and his style is correct and elegant, but the unity of his narrative is somewhat destroyed by digressions, and by his method of treating war, politics, civil administration, and ecclesiastical affairs under separate heads. His most important work is his Histoire de la rivalit de la France et de l'Angleterre (in 11 vols., 1771-1777); and among his other works may be mentioned: - Essai de la rhtorique franaise l'usage des demoiselles (1745), often reprinted, and in 1822 with a life of the author
- Histoire de Marie de Bourgogne (1757)
- Histoire de Franois I (5 vols., 1776-1779)
- Histoire des grandes querelles entre Charles V. et Franois II (2 vols., 1777)
- Histoire dc Charlemagne (2 vols., 1782)
- Histoire de la rivalit de la France et de l'Espagne (8 vols., 1801)
- Dictionnaire historique (6 vols., 1789-1804), making part of the Encyclopdie methodique
- Mlanges littraires, containing loges on Charles V, Henry IV, Descartes, Corneille, La Fontaine, Malesherbes and others.
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