Nicolas Eugène Géruzez was a French

France

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He was born at Reims

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. He was assistant professor at the Sorbonne

University of Paris

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, and in 1852 he became secretary to the faculty of literature. His works include a Histoire de l'éloquence politique et religieuse en France aux XIV', XV' et XVI' siècles (1837-1838); an Histoire de la littérature française depuis les origines jusqu’a la Revolution (1852), which he supplemented in 1859 by a volume bringing down the history to the close of the revolutionary period; and some miscellaneous works.

Géruzez died in Paris

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. A posthumous volume of Mélanges et pensées appeared in 1877.