Louis Duchesne · 1894 · public-domain-original
19 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
The critical fasti of the Gallic sees, three volumes 1894-1915, and the book that exists to correct Gams for Gaul. Where Gams prints a bare year with no witness, Duchesne prints the episcopal CATALOGUES themselves - for Lyon three redactions of one list, the oldest from a mid-9th-century evangeliary of Autun - and then goes through the line entry by entry naming what each name rests on: a council signature, an epitaph read out of the tomb, a letter of Sidonius or Avitus, a martyrology anniversary, or nothing at all, which he says instead of inventing. ⚠ HIS OWN NUMBERING IS NOT THE CATALOGUE'S, and using one for the other shifts the whole line by two: the three catalogues agree in interpolating Salonius and Veranus, the two sons of Eucherius, after their father (t. II, 2nd ed., p. 161 - someone wrote them in the margin and a copyist took them into the text), and Duchesne drops them from his commentary. So the manuscript prints Patiens 22nd and Duchesne calls him the 20th; a citation here therefore names the numbered COMMENTARY entry, never the catalogue line. That both sons are in this dataset as bishops of Geneva and of Vence is the interpolation's own refutation. ⚠ HE STOPS WHERE HIS EVIDENCE DOES. The Lyon series ends at 49. Alwala (c. 895, still living after 900) and he declines the rest in one sentence - the variants between the catalogues n'intéressent que le Xe et le XIe siècle, and he will not discuss them - so a 10th-century holder of a Gallic see gets no number from this row and had better get none from anywhere else. ⚠ VOLUMES AND EDITIONS PAGINATE DIFFERENTLY: t. I Provinces du Sud-est, t. II L'Aquitaine et les Lyonnaises, t. III Les provinces du Nord et de l'Est, and tomes I and II were re-set for a second edition. Only the SECOND edition of tome II (1907) is in this project's text archive, so every locator here reads 't. II (2nd ed., 1907), p. N, no. N' and nothing is cited from a volume nobody here has opened. FRENCH, read under the project's translation policy: the facts - a number, a see, a council year, a consular date off an epitaph - are taken and the prose around them is ours. He is a critical Catholic scholar writing in the 1890s and his conclusions about what a Gallic church may claim for its own antiquity are conclusions, not data. Nothing from here rises above traditional: he is a modern compiler however good his apparatus, and the ordinal is his reconstruction. FACTS-ONLY. Public domain by imprint date (t. II 2nd ed., Paris: Fontemoing, 1907). Item page and OCR download both answered 200 on 13 Aug 2026 and the OCR is now in bronze under data/bronze/archive-texts (npm run fetch:archive-texts).