HOUSSAYE, HENRY (1848-1911), French historian, son of the preceding, was born in Paris. His early writings were de voted to classical antiquity, and to Greek history. He is best known, however, for his works on the Napoleonic period. These include : 1814 (1888), which went through no fewer than 46 edi tions ; 1815, the first part of which comprises the first Restoration, the return from Elba and the Hundred Days (1893) ; the second part, Waterloo (1899) ; and the third part, the second abdication and the White Terror (1905) ; and Lena et la campagne de z806 (1912) . He was elected a member of the French Academy 1895, and died in Paris on Sept. 23, 1911.
See L. Sonolet, Henri Houssaye (1905) .