Jules Michelet





Jules Michelet

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born
August 21, 1798 in Paris, France

died
February 09, 1874

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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


Average rating: 3.83 · 137 ratings · 16 reviews · 128 distinct works
Satanism and Witchcraft: A ...
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La Sorciere
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Michelet : Histoire de la r...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1939
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Michelet
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1957 — 8 editions
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Le Moyen Age - Histoire de ...
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Histoire De La Révolution ...
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La mer
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The People
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