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Pierre Adolphe ChruelPierre Adolphe Chruel (January 17, 1809 - May 1, 1891), was a French historian. He was born at Rouen and educated at the cole Normale Suprieure, becoming a fellow (agreg) in 1830. His early studies were concerned with local history. His Histoire de Rouen sous la domination anglaise au XVieme sicle (1840) and Histoire de Rouen pendant l'poque communale, 1550-1382 (Rouen, 1843-1844), are major productions for a time when the archives were neither catalogued nor classified, and contain useful documents previously unpublished. His theses for the degree of doctor, De l'administration de Louis XIV d'aprs les Mmoires indits d'Olivier d'Ormesson and De Maria Stuarta et Henrico III (1849), led him to the study of general history. The former was expanded afterwards under the title Histoire de l'administration monarchique en France depuis l'avnement de Philippe-Auguste Jusqu' la Mort de Louis XIV (1855), and in 1855 he also published his Dictionnaire historique des institutions, moeurs et coutumes de la France, of which many editions have appeared. These works may still be consulted for the 17th century, the period upon which Chruel concentrated all his scientific activity. He edited successively the Journal d'Olivier Lefevre d'Ormesson (1860-1862), interesting for the history of the parlement of Paris during the minority of King Louis XIV; Lettres du cardinal Mazarin pendant son ministre (6 vols, 1870-1891), continued by the vicomte G d'Avenel; and Mmoires du duc de Saint-Simon, published for the first time according to the original manuscripts (2 editions, 1856-1858 and 1878-1881). To Saint-Simon he devoted two critical studies, which are acute but not definitive: Saint-Simon considr comme historien de Louis XIV (1865) and Notice sur la vie et sur les mmoires du duc de Saint-Simon (1876). The latter may be considered as an introduction to the famous Mmoires. Among his later writings were the Histoire de in France pendant la minorit de Louis XIV (4 vols, 1880) and Histoire de la France sous le ministire de Mazarin (1882-1883). These two works are valuable for abundance of facts, precision of details, and clear and intelligent arrangement, but are characterized by a slightly frigid style. In their compilation Chruel used a fair number of unpublished documents. To the student of the second half of the 17th century in France, the works of Chruel are a mine of information. Reference Chruel, Pierre Adolphe Chruel, Pierre Adolphe
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