Paris

Paris, GASTON, born 9th August 1839, succeeded his father, Paulin Paris (1800–81), in 1872 as professor of old French at the Collège de France, became a member of the Academy of Inscriptions in 1872, and of the Académie Française in 1896. He has written a long series of most valuable works on old French literature (La Poésie du Moyen-Âge, 1885–95; La Littérature Française au Moyen-Âge, 2d ed. 1890, &c.), and edited many texts (Le Roman de Renard, 1895, &c.).