Auguste Vallet de Viriville

Auguste Vallet de Viriville, after 1858 known as Auguste Vallet (23 April 1815, in Paris – 20 February 1868, in Paris) was a French archivist and historian.

He received his education at the École des Chartes in Paris, obtaining his degree as an archivist-paleographer in 1837. Afterwards, he worked as an archivist for the département of Aube, and in 1847 attained a professorship at the École des Chartes.^[1][2]

He served as vice-president of the Société de l'École des chartes, and was a resident member of the Société nationale des antiquaires de France (1855–68).^[3]