Lecoy de La Marche

Albert Lecoy de La Marche (21 November 1839, Nemours – 22 February 1897, Paris) was a French archivist and historian.

Biography

After graduating from the École des Chartes in 1861, he was appointed archivist of the Department of Haute Savoie. In 1864, he went to Paris as archivist in the historical section of the Archives de l'Empire. For many years, he was also a professor of French history at the Catholic Institute in Paris.

Works

His magnum opus is (Paris, 1868), which was awarded a prize by the It consists of three parts: Part I begins with a summary of the history of preaching in the early church, and in France prior to the eleventh century, and then gives an exhaustive history of French preachers in the following centuries, especially the thirteenth. Part II deals with the audiences, the time and the place of preaching, and the various kinds of sermons. Part III is a study of all social classes of French society in the Middle Ages as it appears in the light of the sermons.

His other publications include: (1873) (1874) (1877) (1880) (1881) (1884) (1892)