A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists/Hauréau, Jean Barthelemy

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Hauréau, Jean Barthelemy, French historian. B. Nov. 9, 1812. He was a Parisian journalist, who, in 1838, became librarian at Le Mans and devoted himself to history. His Manuel du Clergé (1844) was a powerful anti-clerical work, and at the Revolution of 1848 he was appointed Conservator of the National Library. He resigned in 1851 and strongly opposed Napoleon III. He was Director of the National Press (1870–81), Director of the Fondation Thiers, and Commander of the Legion of Honour. Perhaps the most valuable of his many historical works is his Histoire de la philosophie scolastique (3 vols., 1872–81). D. Apr. 29, 1896.