Émile Théodore Léon Gautier (8 August 183225 August 1897) was a French literary historian. He was born at Le Havre, France. He was educated at the École des Chartes, and became successively head of the archives of the département of Haute-Marne (1856) and archivist at the Imperial Archives in Paris (1859). In 1874 he became a professor of palaeography at the École des Chartes. He was elected a member of the Academy of Inscriptions in 1887, and became chief of the historical section of the National Archives in 1893. Gautier rendered great services to the study of early French literature, the most important of his numerous works on medieval subjects being a critical text (Tours, 1872) with translation and introduction of the Chanson de Roland, and Les Épopées françaises (3 volumes, 1866–1867; 2nd edition, 5 volumes, 1878–1897, including a Bibliographie des chansons de geste). Works Œuvres poétiques d'Adam de Saint-Victor (1858/59) – Poetic works of Adam de Saint-Victor. Les Épopées françaises (1865/68) – The French epics. La Chanson de Roland (critical edition, 1872) Portraits contemporains et questions actuelles (1873) La Chevalerie (1884) – On chivalry. Histoire de la poésie liturgique au Moyen Âge: les tropes (1886) – History on liturgical poetry of the Middle Ages. Portraits du XIXe siècle I. Poètes et romanciers, (1894/95) Portraits du XIXe siècle. Historiens et critiques, (1894/95) Portraits du XIXe siècle. Nos adversaires et nos amis, (1894/95) Bibliographie des chansons de geste (1897). La France sous Philippe-Auguste (1899) References External links Digital edition of the Portraits du XIXe siècle. Historiens et critiques on the website of the Europeana Digital edition of the Portraits du XIXe siècle. Nos adversaires et nos amis on the website of the Europeana 1832 births 1897 deaths Academic staff of the École Nationale des Chartes French archivists 19th-century French historians French literary historians Writers from Le Havre French medievalists Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres French male non-fiction writers École Nationale des Chartes alumni 19th-century French male writers