QUICHERAT, JULES ETIENNE JOSEPH ( 1814— 1882), French historian and archaeologist, was of Burgundian origin. His father, a working cabinet-maker, came from Paray le Monial to Paris where Quicherat was born on Oct. 13, 1814. He was educated at the college of Ste. Barbe and at the Ecole des Chartes. Inspired by the example of Michelet, who had just written an admirable work on Joan of Arc (q.v.), he published the text of the two trials of Joan, adding much contemporary evidence on her heroism in his Proces de condamnation et de rehabilitation de Jeanne d'Arc (5 vols. 1841-1849), as well as half a volume of Apercus nouveaux sur l'histoire de Jeanne d'Arc. He wrote full biographies of two chroniclers of Louis XI., one very obscure, Jean Castel (in the Bibliotheque d'Ecole des Chartes, 1840), the other, Thomas Basin, bishop of Lisieux, a remarkable politician, prelate and chronicler. Quicherat also pub lished the works of the latter (4 vols., 1855-1859). In 1849 he
was appointed professor of diplomacy at the Ecole des Chartes. He died at Paris on April 8, 1882.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--After his death his unpublished papers were printed in Mélanges d'archeologie et d'histoire, vol. i., Celtic, Roman and Gallo-Roman antiquities, ed. A. Giry and Aug. Castan (1885), and vol. ii., Archeologie du moyen age, ed. R. de Lasteyrie. His Histoire de la laine, on which he was occupied for many years, was missing from his papers, and only the introductory chapters (up to the 11th century) of his lectures on archaeology were found. Among his lectures published in contemporary reviews are La formation francaise des anciens noms de lieu (1867) ; De l'ogive et de l'architecture dite ogivale (185o) ; L'Age de la cathedrale de Laon (1874) ; and Histoire du costume en France (1875; 2nd ed., 1877), a popular work.