Ernest Lavisse [SEP] date of death
Ernest Lavisse
Ernest Lavisse (; 17 December 1842 – 18 August 1922) was a French historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
Biography.
He was born at Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, Aisne.
In 1865 he obtained a fellowship in history, and in 1875 became a doctor of letters; he was appointed "maître de conférence" (1876) at the École Normale Supérieure, succeeding Fustel de Coulanges, and then professor of modern history at the Sorbonne (1888
Guizot, "History of France". Transl. from the French by Robert Black. No date, but a publisher's note is dated 1876; New York; Klemscott Society. vol. 6, p. 110ff.
- Ernest Lavisse, "Histoire de France", reprinted from the editions of 1900–1911, Paris. 1969, New York; AMS Press, Inc. Vol. VIII, part 2.
- James Breck Perkins, "France Under Louis XV", vol. i. 1897, Boston; Houghton