BEMONT, CHARLES ), French scholar, and director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, was born in Paris, on Nov. 16, 1848. His studies were chiefly in English and European mediaeval history, his most important works being: Simon de Montfort, comte de Leicester (1884) ; Les chartes des libertes anglaises (1892) ; Recueil d'actes relati f s a l'administra tion des rois d'Angleterre en Guyenne au XIII siecle. . . . Tran scrits et publiees par C. Bemont (1914). In 1896 Bemont pub lished a supplement to the first volume of the Gascon Rolls, begun by F. Michel, and in 190o and 1906 he issued the second and third volumes. The University of Oxford conferred the honorary degree of Litt.D. on him in 1909.