Henry le monnier biography of albert

French art historian

Not to be confused with Henry Monnier (1799-1877), the French actor and playwright

Joseph Henri Lemonnier (8 August 1842, Saint-Prix - 17 May 1936, Paris) was a French art historian; the first to hold the chair of art history at the Sorbonne.

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Henry Monnier was born circa , in birth place, Pennsylvania.

2 He had distinguished himself also as the perpetrator of a literary hoax, in publishing the Dernieres lettres de deux amants de Barcelone.

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Biography

His father was André-Hippolyte Lemonnier, a poet, art collector and Secretary of the Académie de France à Rome. His grandfather, Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier, was a painter of historical subjects.

He was a student at the Lycée Charlemagne, then entered the École Impériale des Chartes, where he became an archivist-paleographer in 1865, with a thesis on Roman administration under the Visigoths. He passed the agrégé in history in 1872.

After teaching in several secondary schools, he was placed in charge of the history course at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1874, and at the École normale supérieure de Sèvres in 1881. He was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor in 1888.^[1]