HAVET, JULIEN (PIERRE EUGENE) (1853-1893), French historian, was born at Vitry-sur-Seine, the second son of Ernest Havet. His valedictory thesis at the Ecole des Chartes, Serie chronologique des gardiens et seigneurs des Iles Normandes (1876), was a definitive work and but slightly affected by later research. In 1878 he followed his thesis by a study called Les Cours royales dans les Iles Normandes. His first work on the Merovingian institutions was Du seas du mot "ronrain" dans les lois franques (1876), a critical study on a theory of Fustel de Coulanges (q.v.). In this he showed that the status of the Born° Romanus of the barbarian laws was inferior to that of the Ger man freeman; that the Gallo-Romans had been subjected by the Germans to a state of servitude ; and, consequently, that the Ger mans had conquered the Gallo-Romans. He died prematurely at St. Cloud on Aug. 19, The two posthumous volumes, Questions merovingiennes and Opuscules inedits (1896), contain besides important papers on diplo matic and on Carolingian and Merovingian history, a large number of short monographs ranging over a great variety of subjects. Mélanges Havet (1895) contains a bibliography of his works compiled by his friend Henri Omont.