BORDIER, be edel, Henri Leonard, French historical writer: b. Paris, 8 Aug. 1817; d. there, 31 Aug. 1888. He graduated in law, making a special study of palmographic archives (1840), and continued to devote his energy to historical studies. He became successively as sistant to the historian Auguste Thierry; assist ant in the Academy of Inscriptions; secretary of the Ecole des Chartes; member of the Commission of the Departmental Archives be longing to the office of the Minister of the Interior (1846); archivist of the national archives (1850). On the establishment of the empire he lost his position; but in 1872 he became honorary librarian in the department of manuscripts in the National Library. For many years he was a member of the committee of the French Protestant Historical Society for which he prepared many noteworthy works. Among his published books are generale de tons les &pets d'archives existant en France) (1855); (Les Eglises et monasteres de Paris) (1856); Latin text with French translation of the (Libri miraculorum aliaque opera minora) of Gregory of Tours (4 vols.,
1857-64); and also a translation into French of his (Historic Francorum) (2 vols., 1859-61) ; inventaires des archives de (1867) ; Fabrique de faux Autographes> (1869); huguenot du seizieme siecle,) (1869); aux Tuilleries, de 1850 1 1870, collection de documents tires du cabinet de l'Empereur) (1872); (Le Saint Barthelemy et la critique modeme) (Geneva 1876) ; Castellin de Tournay); (L'ecole historique de Jerome Bolsec> (Paris 1880); des peintures et autres ornements contenus dans les manuscrits grecs de la Bibliotheque Nationale) (1885).