he was appointed a commander of the Legion of Honor. However, his Histoire ancienne de l'Église, 1906‑11 (translated as Early History of the Christian Church) was considered too modernist by the Church during the "Modernist crisis" and was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books in 1912. The London Tablet said,By his rigid application of scientific methods of research and judgment, by his caustic tongue and pen, Mgr. Duchesne was regarded by some as a scoffer and a vandal among pious traditions. But by those who knew him, he was regarded as a master of the sciences which are auxiliary to ecclesiastical history. He died in 1922, in Rome, and is buried in the cemetery of Saint-Servan. Works Mémoire sur une mission au mont Athos (Paris: E. Thorin, 1876) Les Nouveaux textes de Saint Clément de Rome, 1877 De codicibus MSS Graecis Pii II in bibliotheca Alexandrino-Vaticana, Paris 1880 Origines du culte chrétien: etude sur la liturgie latine avant Charlemagne (1889) . Next printing 1919 and 1931 (5th ed.) also in New York : Macmillan Company. second edition (in French) Vol. III second edition (in French) second edition (in French) - commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Louis Duchesne. Gallery Notes References Joassart, B., editor 2002. [122 letters between Duchesne and the Bollandists] Waché, Brigitte (1975). Monseigneur Duchesne et son temps Rome: École française de Rome. Waché, Brigitte (1992). Monseigneur Louis Duchesne (1843–1922) Rome: École française de Rome. External links Table of "Personalities and interpreters of the modernist movement" in the Roman Catholic Church 1843 births 1922 deaths Writers from Saint-Malo French philologists 19th-century French historians 20th-century French historians Historians of the Catholic Church Liturgists French medievalists Members of the Académie Française Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 19th-century French Roman Catholic priests Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur 20th-century French Roman Catholic priests École pratique des hautes études alumni Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études Modernism in the Catholic Church Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy Clergy from Saint-Malo