Alexis Paulin Paris

Alexis Paulin Paris (25 March 180013 February 1881) was a French scholar and author.

Life Paris was born at Avenay (Marne). He studied classics in Reims and law in Paris. He published in 1824 an ('In Defense of the Romantic school') and took an active part in Parisian journalism. His appointment, in 1828, to the department of manuscripts in the left him leisure to pursue his studies in medieval French literature. His numerous editions of early French poems continued the work begun by Dominique Meon in raising general interest in the .

Admitted to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in 1837, Paris was shortly afterwards appointed on the commission entrusted with the continuation of the . In 1853, a chair of medieval literature was founded at the Collège de France, and Paris became the first occupant. He retired in 1872 with the title of honorary professor and was promoted to officer of the Legion of Honour in the next year.

Works His works include: Li Romans de Berte aus grans piés, précédé d’une dissertation sur les romans des douze pairs (1832) Li Romans du Garin le Loherain, publié pour la première fois et précédé de l'examen du système de M. Fauriel sur les romans carlovingiens (1833–1835) Le Romancero français, histoire de quelques anciens trouvères et choix de leurs chansons (1833) Les Manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque du roi (7 vols., 1836-1848) an edition of the Grandes chroniques de France (1836-1840) La Chanson d'Antioche (1848) Les Aventures de maître Renart et d'Ysengrin (1861) Les Romans de la table ronde (1868-1877).

His son Gaston Paris contributed a biographical notice to vol. xxix of the Histoire littéraire.