Background
Auguste Molinier was born on September 30, 1851 in Toulouse, France.
Auguste Molinier was born on September 30, 1851 in Toulouse, France.
He was a pupil at the ficole des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes; and he obtained appointments in the public libraries at the Mazarine (1878), at Fontainebleau (1884), and at St Genevieve, of which he was nominated librarian in 1885.
His thesis on leaving the Ecole des Chartes was his Catalogue des actes de Simon et d'Amauri de Montfort (inserted in vol.
xxxiv.
of the Bibliotheque de I'ecole, an important contribution to the history of the Albigenses.
He also wrote a Bibliographie du Languedoc, which was awarded a prize by the Academie des inscriptions et belles- lettres, but remained in manuscript.
He also published several documents for the SocietS de l'Orient Latin (Itinera hierosoly- mitana, in collaboration with Ch.
Applying to the French classics the rigorous method used with regard to the texts of the middle ages, he published the Pensees of Pascal, revised with the original manuscript (1887 - 1889), and the Provinciates (1891), edited with notes.
He also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes.
A younger brother, Emile (1857 - 1906), became an assistant in the print-room at the Bibliotheque Nationale, and afterwards joined the staff at the Musee du Louvre, of which he eventually became keeper, retiring in 1902.
