FAGNIEZ

fagniez, gustave charles (1842- ), french historian and economist, was born in paris on the 6th of october 1842. trained at the ecole des chartes and the ecole des hautes etudes, he made his first appearance in the world of scholarship as the author of an excellent book called _etudes sur l'industrie et la classe industrielle a paris au xiii^e et au xiv^e siecle_ (1877). this work, composed almost entirely from documents, many unpublished, opened a new field for historical study. twenty years later he supplemented this book by an interesting collection of _documents relatifs a l'histoire de l'industrie et du commerce en france_ (2 vols., 1898-1900), and in 1897 he published _l'economie sociale de la france sous henri iv_, a volume containing the results of very minute research. he did not, however, confine himself to economic history. his _le pere joseph et richelieu_ (1894), though somewhat frigid and severe, is based on a mass of unpublished information, and shows remarkable psychologic grasp. in 1878 his _journal parisien de jean de maupoint, prieur de ste catherine-de-la-couture_ was published in vol. iv. of the _memoires de la societe de l'histoire de paris et de l'ile de france_. he wrote numerous articles in the _revue historique_ (of which he was co-director with gabriel monod for some years) and in other learned reviews, such as the _revue des questions historiques_ and the _journal des savants_. in 1901 he was elected member of the academie des sciences morales et politiques.