About Louis Saltet
Lived 1870 – 1952 (aged 81). Louis Saltet was a French historian, catholic theologian and catholic priest.
Louis Saltet (1870 – 1952) was a French Benedictine ecclesiastical historian. He taught at Catholic University of Toulouse, and published a long series of articles in the Bulletin de Littérature ecclésiastique de l'Institut Catholique de Toulouse.
He spectacularly exposed forgeries made by Adémar de Chabannes in the eleventh century. This work by Saltet was completed by 1930, but its wide acceptance was delayed by a generation or even two. Confirmation as a technical historical matter is treated in Richard Landes, Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History: Ademar of Chabannes, 989-1034 (Harvard Historical Studies, 1998).
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Who was Louis Saltet?
French historian (1870-1952)
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Louis Saltet was born on 1 October 1870.
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Louis Saltet died on 8 July 1952.
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Louis Saltet was a historian, catholic theologian and catholic priest.
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Louis Saltet was French.
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