Anquetil, LOUIS PIERRE

Anquetil, LOUIS PIERRE, a French historian, born at Paris in 1723, took orders, and, after filling educational posts at Rheims and Senlis, got a government appointment under Napoleon. He died, a member of the Institute, at Paris, September 6, 1806. He wrote a history of Rheims, and numerous memoirs on periods of French history; but his great work is his Histoire de France (14 vols. 1805), continued by Bouillet to 1862 in 6 additional volumes.