MONOD, GABRIEL (-JEAN-JACQUES)

born March 7, 1844, Ingouville, France died April 10, 1912, Versailles historian who helped introduce German historical methodology to France. One of the most scholarly and stimulating teachers of history, he also greatly improved the seminar system. Monod studied at the universities of Gttingen and Berlin, where he was influenced by Georg Waitz, an exponent of the historical techniques of the renowned German historiographer Leopold von Ranke. Returning to France in 1868, Monod gave lectures on history at L'cole des Hautes tudes, Paris. After the Franco-Prussian War (1870) he published his own experiences in it as Allemands et Franais (1871; The Germans and the French). Shortly thereafter, he founded the Revue Historique. Named lecturer at the cole Normale Suprieure in Paris (1880), Monod was subsequently elected to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and professor at the Collge de France, receiving many honours for his outstanding teaching. Among Monod's other studies are the tudes critiques sur les sources de l'histoire de France (1898) and Bibliographie de l'histoire de France (1888), a bibliographic treatment of France in the Middle Ages.