Paul Marie Viollet
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France
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historian
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. After serving his native city as secretary and archivist
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, he became archivist at the Archives impériales
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in Paris
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in 1866, and later librarian
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to the faculty of law. On June 7, 1890 he was appointed professor of civil
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and canon law
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at the École des chartes. His work mainly concerned the history of law and institutions, and on this subject he published two scholarly books Droit public: Histoire des institutions politiques et administratives de la France (1890–98), and Précis de l'histoire du droit français (1886).
Further reading
- Vincent Duclert, Colloque du général de Gaulle, Lille 2001.
- Mathias Gardet, Jean Viollet et l'apostolat laïc: les Œuvres du Moulin-Vert, Beauchesne, 2005
- Eugène Viollet, Paul Viollet, mon père, manuscript, 1926.