Charles-Victor Langlois (French: [ʃaʁl viktɔʁ lɑ̃ɡlwa]; May 26, 1863, Rouen – June 25, 1929, Paris) was a French historian, archivist and paleographer, who specialized in the study of the Middle Ages and was a lecturer at the Sorbonne, where he taught paleography, bibliography, and the history of the Middle Ages.
Biography
Langlois attended the École Nationale des Chartes and earned a doctorate in history from the University of Paris in 1887. He taught at the University of Douai before moving to the University of Paris. He was director of the National Archives of France from 1913 to 1929. Langlois was a leader in the use of the historical method, which taught a scientific form of studying history. His "Manual of Historical Bibliography" was a fundamental manual on how bibliographic methods, which went along with his studies of the historical method.
Bibliography
Le Règne de Philippe III le Hardi (1887) Text freely available in gallica.bnf.fr
Les Archives de l’histoire de France, in collaboration with Henri Stein (1891)
Introduction aux études historiques, in collaboration with Charles Seignobos (1897) Text freely available in Les Classiques des sciences sociales
Manuel de bibliographie historique (1901, 1904) Text freely available in gallica.bnf.fr
La Connaissance de la nature et du monde au Moyen Âge (1911) Text freely available in gallica.bnf.fr
Saint-Louis, Philippe le Bel, les derniers Capétiens directs (1911) Text freely available in gallica.bnf.fr
La Vie en France au Moyen Âge: de la fin du XIIe au milieu du XIVe siècle (1927)
