QUICHERAT, JULES (-TIENNE-JOSEPH)

born Oct. 13, 1814, Paris died April 8, 1882, Paris French historian and pioneering archaeologist who was a major force in French scholarship during the 19th century. Quicherat was educated at the Collge de Sainte-Barbe and completed his studies at the cole des Chartes in 1835. Following work with the Bibliothque Royale, he returned in 1847 to the cole des Chartes and became its director in 1871. Quicherat was one of the founders of the study of archaeology in France. He also researched and wrote extensively on medieval France, producing biographies of the historians Jean Castel and Bishop Thomas Basin of Lisieux as well as studies of Charles VII and Louis XI. He edited and published the texts of the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc in five volumes (184149). The posthumous publication of Quicherat's two-volume study synthesizing archaeology and the study of history demonstrated the wide range of his scholarship.