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During 1822 and the succeeding years he travelled about Europe on the search for materials for his Collection des chroniques rationales fran4aises ecrites en langue vulgaire cat XIII e au X VI' siècle (47 vols., 1824-1829).
Charpentier in his Excellence de la langue francaise (1683) had anticipated Perrault in the famous academical dispute concerning the relative merit of the ancients and moderns.
Lantsheere, De la race et de la langue des Heteens (1891); P. Jensen, Hittiter and Armenier (1898); M.
His first important work was an Etude sur le role de l'accent latin dans la langue francaise (1862).
Among his other numerous works may be mentioned Les Plus anciens monuments de la langue francaise (1875); a Manuel d'ancien Frangais (1888); an edition of the Mystere de la passion d'Arnoul Greban (1878), in collaboration with M.