Alexis Paulin Paris

[1] He published in 1824 an Apologie pour l'école romantique (In Defense of the Romantic school) and took an active part in Parisian journalism.

His appointment, in 1828, to the department of manuscripts in the Bibliothèque royale left him leisure to pursue his studies in medieval French literature.

His numerous editions of early French poems continued the work begun by Dominique Meon in raising general interest in the chanson de geste.

[2] Admitted to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in 1837, Paris was shortly afterwards appointed on the commission entrusted with the continuation of the Histoire littéraire de la France.

He retired in 1872 with the title of honorary professor and was promoted to officer of the Legion of Honour in the next year.