MEYER, [Marie] Paul Hyacinthe, French philologist : b. Paris, 17 Jan. 1840; d. 19 March 1917. He was educated at the Cycie Louis le Grand and at the Ecole des Chartes, specializing in the Romance languages. He was attached to the manuscript department of the Biblio theque Nationale in 1863-65, and in 1865 founded the Revue Critique. He was keeper of the national archives in 1866-72 and in 1872 founded Romania, to which he was the leading contributor. He was appointed professor of the languages and literatures of southern Europe at the College of France in 1876, and from 1882 he was a director of the ficole Na tionale des Chartes. He became honorary pro fessor at the College of France in 1906. His work in connection with romance literature is of exceptional value and he is considered the leading modern authority on the French language. He was a member of the Institute of France, a commander in the Legion of Honor and an associate of the British Acad emy. He edited a large number of old French
texts, many of which were for the Societe de l'histoire de France and the Societe des anciens textes francais. Among them are 'Aye d'Avig non' (1861) ; 'Flamenca' (1865); (Histoire Guillaume le Marechal, comte de Striguil et de Pembroke> (3 vols., 1891-1901) ; dune vie de Saint Thomas de Cantorbery' (1885), etc. Author of (Rapports sur les docu ments manuscrits de l'ancienne 'literature de la France conserves dans les bibliotheques de la Grande Bretagne) (1871) ; 'Recueil d'anciens textes bas-Latins, provencaux et francais' (2 parts, 1874-76) ; le Grand dans la 'literature francaise du moyen age' (2 vols., 1886) •, (Histoire des relations de la France avec Venise) (1896) ; (Documents linguistiques du midi de la France' (1909), etc.