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Jules Michelet

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born

August 21, 1798 in Paris, France

died

February 09, 1874

gender

male

website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Michelet

genre

History, Politics

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His father was a master printer, not very prosperous, and Jules assisted him in the actual work of the press. A place was offered him in the imperial printing office, but his father was able to send him to the famous Collège or Lycée Charlemagne, where he distinguished himself. He passed the university examination in 1821, and was soon appointed to a professorship of history in the Collège Rollin.
Soon after this, in 1824, he married. This was one of the most favourable periods ever for scholars and men of letters in France, and Michelet had powerful patrons in Abel-François Villemain and Victor Cousin, among others. Although he was an ardent politician (having from his childhood embraced republicanism and a peculiar variety of romantic free...more

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Books by Jules Michelet

Average rating: 3.83 · 137 ratings · 16 reviews · 128 distinct works

	Satanism and Witchcraft: A Study in Medieval Superstition 3.84 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1974 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Joan of Arc by Jules Michelet, Albert Guerard 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1858 — 15 editions	My rating:
	La Sorciere 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Michelet : Histoire de la révolution française, tome 2 : 1792-1794 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1939	My rating:
	Michelet : Histoire de la révolution française, tome 1 : 1789-1792 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1939 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Michelet 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1957 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Le Moyen Age - Histoire de France 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Histoire De La Révolution Française Tome I.Volume 2 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	La mer 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The People by Jules Michelet, John P McKay 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	My rating: