Title: Découverte d'un cimetière mérovingien A la Chapelle-Saint Éloi (Eure) par Ch. Lenormant
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. 84. Calf-backed boards.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Bound with the first edition of the refutation by P.F. Lebeurier (De la découverte d'un prétendu cimetière mérovingien A la Chapelle-Saint-Eloi (Eure), Par M. Charles Lenormant. Rapport Fait à la Société libre d'Agriculture, Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres du département de l'Eure, dans sa séance du 5 août 1855 et publiée par son ordre. Évreux, 1855, see Bib# 4102959/Fr# 1322 in this collection).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A curious hoax perpetrated by the distinguished archaeologist Charles Lenormant and his 17-year-old son and disciple Francis, documenting a ‘find’ of building stones and inscribed tiles, supposedly a Merovingian cemetery in Chapelle-Saint-Éloi. The Lenormants had their work reprinted at Évreux in 1855 and 1858, and were confronted with devastating responses by local antiquaries (Bib# 4102959/Fr# 1322 and Bib# 4102960/Fr# 1323). Both of the Lenormants have been suspected of other archaeological frauds, but no thorough inventory of their voluminous publications has yet addressed the possibility of other canards.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102958" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>