1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Petit de Julleville, Louis

PETIT DE JULLEVILLE, LOUIS (1841–1900), French scholar, was born in Paris on the 18th of July 1841. Educated at the École Normale Supérieure, and at the French school at Athens, he received his doctorate in literature in 1868. After holding various posts as a teacher he became professor of French medieval literature and of the history of the French language in the university of Paris in 1886. He died on the 28th of August 1900

His most important works are: Histoire du théâtre en France, including Les Mystères (2 vols., 1880); Les Comédiens en France au moyen âge (1885); La Comédie et les mœurs en France au moyen âge (1886); Répertoire du théâtre comique en France au moyen âge (1886); and Le Théâtre en France, histoire de la littérature dramatique depuis ses origines jusqu’à nos jours (1889). Petit de Julleville was also the general editor of the Histoire de la langue et de la littérature française (8 vols., 1896–1900), to which he himself contributed some valuable chapters.