HAUREAU (JEAN), BARTHELEMY (18 I 896) , French historian, was born in Paris. He was a deputy to the National Assembly of 1848; contact with the revolution gradu ally cooled his old ardour. He became director of the ms. de partment of the Bibliotheque Nationale but resigned after the coup d'etat of 1851, and refused to accept any administrative post until after the fall of the empire. He was director of the national printing press from 187o to 1881, and in 1893 became director of the Fondation Thiers. He died on April 29, 1896.
Haureau devoted his life to the religious, philosophical and more particularly the literary history of the middle ages. From the time of his appointment to the Bibliotheque Nationale up to the last days of his life he made abstracts of all the mediaeval Latin writings (many anonymous or of doubtful attribution) re lating to philosophy, theology, grammar, canon law and poetry, carefully noting on cards the first words of each passage. After his death this index of incipits, arranged alphabetically, was pre rented to the Academie des Inscriptions, and a copy was placed in the ms. department of the Bibliotheque Nationale.
See notice by Paul Meyer prefixed to vol. xxxiii. of the Histoir( litteraire de la France.