AULARD, FRANcOIS VICTOR ALPHONSE 1928), French historian, and one of the leading authorities on the revolutionary period in France, was born at Montbron in Charente on July 19, 1849. Having obtained the degree of doctor of letters in 1877 with a Latin thesis upon C. Asinius Pollio and a French one upon Giacomo Leopardi (whose works he sub sequently translated into French), he made a study of parlia mentary oratory during the French Revolution, and published two volumes upon Les Orateurs de la constituante (1882) and upon Les'Orateurs de la legislative et de la convention (1885). With these works, which were reprinted in 1905, he entered a field where he soon became an acknowledged master. Applying to the study of the French Revolution the rules of historical criticism which had produced such rich results in the study of ancient and mediaeval history, he devoted himself to research in the archives, and to the publication of many important contributions to the political, administrative and moral history of that marvellous period. As professor of the history of the French Revolution at the Sorbonne and president of the Societe de l'Histoire de la Revo lution, he formed the minds of students who in their turn have done valuable work. He died in Oct: 1928.