GIRY, JEAN-MARIE-JOSEPH-ARTHUR. - French historian and diplomatist, b. at Trévoux (Ain) on 29 Feb. 1848, d. at Paris on 13 Nov. 1899. After taking part in the Franco-Prussian War of '70, an archivist in the national archives (1871), he soon distinguished himself through various studies on the juridical-economic institutions of the Middle Ages, later becoming a professor at the École des Chartes (1885).

Among his works are remembered the Histoire de la ville de St-Omer et de ses institutions jusqu'au XIVe siècle (Paris 1877); Documents sur les relations de la royauté avec les villes en France de 1180 à 1314 (2 vols., ibid. 1883-85); and the Manuel de diplomatique (ibid. 1894, reprinted ibid. 1925), which remains authoritative even today. He directed two series of publications relating to the Carolingians.

He died of grief and anxiety in the aftermath of the Dreyfus affair.

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BIBL.: A biography by F. Lot in Annuarie 1901 de l'Ecole pratique des hautes études (Section des sciences historiques et philologiques), Paris 1900, pp. 20-47; H. Maistre, Bibliographie des travaux de A. G. ... avec une notice biographique par F. Bounon, St-Denis 1900.

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