Francis Monnier

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Francis Monnier was a French literary figure, specialising in the Carolingian era, notably the figure of Alcuin,[1] who was briefly appointed in March 1863 tutor to the Prince Imperial, only son of Napoleon III, following the prince's seventh birthday.[2] Monnier was occupied at the time with his Alcuin et Charlemagne, which was published in 1864.[3] Monnier also wrote Guillaume de Lamoignon et Colbert: Essai sur la legislation française au XVIIe siècle (Paris, 1862).

Notes

  1. ^ Monnier is the author of Alcuin, et son Influence Littéraire, Réligieuse et Politique chez les Franks (1854) and an Histoire des Luttes Politiques et Religieuses dans les Temps Carolingiens.
  2. ^ "The boy was at that time inclined to be turbulent and self-willed.and Monnier, a literary man,often absent-mined and careless, like some of his class, did not given full satisfaction, His place was taken, then, by M. Augustin Filon." (Ernest Alfred Vizetell, The court of the Tuileries, 1852-1870: its organization, chief personages :377).
  3. ^ Noted in The Bookseller, 29 February 1864: 163.