'''Louis Saltet''' (1870 – 1952) was a French Benedictine ecclesiastical historian. He taught at Catholic University of Toulouse, and published a long series of articles in the ''Bulletin de Littérature ecclésiastique de l'Institut Catholique de Toulouse''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.societes-savantes-toulouse.asso.fr/samf/memoires/T_52/bull921.htm |title=Bulletin 1991-1992 1ère partie |accessdate=2007-10-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016025305/http://www.societes-savantes-toulouse.asso.fr/samf/memoires/T_52/bull921.htm |archivedate=2007-10-16 |language=fr}}.</ref>
He spectacularly exposed forgeries made by Adémar de Chabannes in the eleventh century.<ref>[http://www.bu.edu/mille/people/rlpages/ademar-story.html ademar-story.html<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> This work by Saltet was completed by 1930, but its wide acceptance was delayed by a generation or even two.<ref>John Williams (1992), in The Codex Calixtinus and the Shrine of St. James, p. 234.</ref> Confirmation as a technical historical matter is treated in Richard Landes, ''Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History: Ademar of Chabannes, 989-1034'' (Harvard Historical Studies, 1998).
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