as the modern "discovery" of the Bayeux Tapestry, which had been displayed annually in Bayeux Cathedral, perhaps for centuries, without attracting outside attention. Montfaucon published the Foucault drawings in the first volume his Les Monumens de la Monarchie Françoise. In anticipation of volume 2 of Les Monumens, Montfaucon engaged the artist Antoine Benoit, and sent him to Bayeux to copy the Tapestry in its entirety and in a manner more faithful to its style. Emory University art history professor Elizabeth Carson Pastan criticizes Montfaucon for his "Norman Triumphalist" point of view in dealing with the story of the Tapestry, despite the fact that he asserted that one should trust "the best historians of Normandy". She does state, however, that modern scholars are indebted to him for his process of examining many accounts of the Norman Conquest in interpreting the Tapestry, and his highlighting of the Tapestry's ambiguity and enigma (such as why Harold Godwinson went to Normandy in 1064 and the identity of the elusive Aelfgyva). Works Analecta graeca, sive varia opuscula graeca inedita (Paris, 1688) S. Athanasii opera omnia (Paris, 1698) Diarium italicum (Paris, 1702) Bibliotheca Coisliniana (Paris, 1705) Collectio nova patrum graecorum (2 vols., 1706) Palaeographia Graeca, sive, De ortu et progressu literarum graecarum (Paris, 1708) Bibliotheca Coisliniana olim Segueriana, Paris: Ludovicus Guerin & Carolus Robustel, (Paris, 1715) L'antiquité expliquée et representée en figures/Antiquitas explanatione et schematibus illustrata (Bilingual edition, vols. 1-15, Paris, 1719-1724) Les monumens de la monarchie françoise (for Henrik IV, vols. 1-5, Paris, 1729–1733) Sancti patris nostri Ioannis Chrisostomi opera omnia (Paris, 1718—1738) Bibliotheca bibliothecarum manuscriptorum nova (vols. 1-2, Paris, 1739) See also Lectionary 295 – manuscript presented by Anselmo Banduri to Montfaucon References External links arachne.uni-koeln.de/ Montfaucon's "Antiquite", complete & commented, as high-resolution scans Les Monumens De La Monarchie Françoise at the University of Heidelberg website L' antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures at the University of Heidelberg website 1655 births 1741 deaths People from Aude French Benedictines Benedictine scholars 18th-century French Roman Catholic priests 17th-century French Roman Catholic priests 17th-century French writers 17th-century French male writers 18th-century French writers 18th-century French male writers Patristic scholars French palaeographers French antiquarians 18th-century French Catholic theologians Christian Hebraists Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey)