René de Lespinasse
French historian and politician (1843–1922)
René de Lespinasse (13 October 1843 – 16 February 1922) was a French historian and politician.
He was a member of the Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Île-de-France (from 1874) and served as president of the Société nivernaise des lettres, sciences et arts.
Selected works
Sacramentarium ad usum Æcclesiæ nivernensis (1873).
Vie et vertus de Saint Louis d'après Guillaume de Nangis et le confesseur de la reine Marguerite (1877).
Les métiers et corporations de la Ville de Paris (4 volumes, 1879–97).
XIIIe siècle: le livre des métiers d'Étienne Boileau (with François Bonnardot, 1879).
Une famille noble sous la Terreur (1879).
Le Nivernais et les comtes de Nevers (3 volumes, 1909–14).
Cartulaire de Saint-Cyr de Nevers (1916).
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