BORDIER, bor"dyê', HENRI LÉONARD: Reformed Church of France; b. in Paris Aug. 8, 1817; d. there Aug. 31, 1888. He was educated at the École de Droit and the École des Chartes in Paris, and licensed in law and as paleographic archivist in 1840; thereafter he devoted himself to historical studies. He was successively assistant to the historian Augustin Thierry; assistant in the Academy of Inscriptions; secretary par interim of the École des Chartes; a member of the commission on the departmental archives of the minister of the interior (1846); archivist of the national archives (1850), and dismissed on the establishment of the Empire. He was, during the siege of Paris, on the commission upon the papers of the Tuileries; and in 1872 was nominated honorary librarian in the department of manuscripts in the Bibliothèque Nationale. He was for many years on the committee of the Société d'Histoire du Protestantisme Français, and prepared numerous works, noted for their accuracy. Among them may be mentioned: various notices in the Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes (Paris, 1841-86); Histoire générale de tous les dépôts d'archives existant en France (1855); Les Églises et monastères de Paris (1856); an edition of the Libri miraculorum aliaque opera minora of Gregory of Tours, Latin text with French translation (4 vols., 1857-64); a French translation of the Historia Francorum of Gregory of Tours (2 vols., 1859-61); Les Inventaires des archives de l'Empire (1867); Une Fabrique de faux autographes (1869); Chansonnier huguenot du seizième siècle (1869); L'Allemagne aux Tuileries, de 1850 à 1870, collection de documents tirés du cabinet de l'Empereur (1872); La Saint-Barthélemy et la critique moderne (Geneva, 1879); L'École historique de Jérôme Bolsec (Paris, 1880); Nicolas Castellin de Tournay, réfugié à Genève, 1564-1576 (1881); Description des peintures et autres ornements contenus dans les manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Nationale (1885). With E. Charton he published in 1860: Histoire de France d'après les documents originaux et les monuments de l'art de chaque époque. At the time of his death he was engaged upon a new and enlarged edition of the brothers Eugène and Émile Haag's La France protestante (originally 12 vols., Paris, 1845-59), and had brought out the first five volumes (1877-86).