Charles Paul Marie Sabatier (3 or 9 August 1858 – 5 March 1928) was a French clergyman and historian who produced the first modern biography of St. Francis of Assisi. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
Life
Sabatier was born at Saint-Michel-de-Chabrillanoux in Ardèche, and was educated at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris. He also published in 1905 A propos de la séparation des églises et de l'État, in 1909 Les modernistes, notes d'histoire religieuse contemporaine, and in 1911 L'orientation religieuse de la France actuelle.
In 1919, Sabatier became professor of Church history at the Protestant Faculty of Theology of the University of Strasbourg. The books were donated to UCL after the society disbanded, and include publications by the society in addition to works on St Francis of Assisi and the Franciscan Order.