Gabriel-Henri Gaillard
Deceased Person
1726 – 1806
Who was Gabriel-Henri Gaillard?
Gabriel-Henri Gaillard, French historian, was born at Ostel, Picardy.
He was educated for the bar, but after finishing his studies adopted a literary career, ultimately devoting his chief attention to history. He was already a member of the Academy of Inscriptions and, Belles-lettres, when, after the publication of the three first volumes of his Histoire de la rivalité de la France et d'Angleterre, he was elected to the Académie française; and when Napoleon created the Institute he was admitted into its third class in 1803. For forty years he was the intimate friend of Malesherbes, whose life he wrote. He died at St Firmin, near Chantilly, on the 13th of February 1806.
Gaillard is painstaking and impartial in his statement of facts, and his style is correct and elegant, but the unity of his narrative is somewhat destroyed by digressions, and by his method of treating war, politics, civil administration, and ecclesiastical affairs under separate heads.
His most important work is his Histoire de la rivalité de la France et de l'Angleterre; and among his other works may be mentioned:
Essai de la rhétorique française à l'usage des demoiselles, often reprinted, and in 1822 with a life of the author
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