The New International Encyclopædia/Houssaye, Henry

HOUSSAYE, Henry (1848—). A French historian and critic, born in Paris. He distinguished himself in the Franco-Prussian War, and was subsequently an editor of the Journal des Débats and the Revue des Deux Mondes. His Histoire d'Alcibiade et de la république athénienne depuis la mort de Pericles jusqu'à l'avenement des trente tyrans (1873) received from the French Academy the prize established by Thiers. In 1894 he was elected to the Academy. His further works include: Athénes, Rome, Paris (1878); L'art français depuis dix ans (1882). He made a careful study from the original documents of the fall of Napoleon and of the first French Empire. The work is in three parts, the first entitled 1814; the second, entitled 1815, includes the first Restoration, the return from Elba, and the Hundred Days. The third volume, also entitled 1815, is devoted to Waterloo. Those books are among the most readable that have ever been published upon the latter part of Napoleon's career.