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Gabriel Henri Gaillard
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or GABRIEL HENRI GAILLARD (1726-1806), French historian, was born at Ostel, Picardy, in 1726. 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 Belleslettres (1760), when, after the publication of the three first volumes of his Histoire de la rivalite de la France et d'Angleterre, he was elected to the French Academy (1771); and when Napoleon created the Institute he was admitted into its third class ( Academie francaise ) in 1803. For forty years he was the intimate friend of Malesherbes, whose life (1805) 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 rivalite de la France et de l'Angleterre (in 11 vols., 1 77 1 - 1 777); and among his other works may be mentioned Essai de rhetorique francaise, a l'usage des jeunes demoiselles (1745), often reprinted, and in 1822 with a life of the author; Histoire de Marie de Bourgogne (1757); Histoire de Francois I" (7 vols., 1776-1779); Histoire des grander querelles entre Charles V. et Francois I eT (2 vols., 1777); Histoire de Charlemagne (2 vols., 1782); Histoire de la rivalite de la France et de l'Espagne (8 vols., 1801); Dictionnaire historique (6 vols., 1789-1804), making part of the Encyclopedie methodique; and Melanges litteraires, containing eloges on Charles V., Henry IV., Descartes, Corneille, La Fontaine, Malesherbes and others.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Gabriel Henri Gaillard'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/g/gabriel-henri-gaillard.html. 1910.
