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Michelet, Jules
The French historian Jules Michelet (1798-1874) wrote the "Histoire de France" and "Histoire de la Révolution française," which established him as one of France's greatest 19th-century historians.
Jules Michelet was born on Aug. 21, 1798, in Paris. His father was a printer by trade, and his mother's family was from peasant lager. The family was poor, especially after Napoleon ordered the closing of his father's press. This family background prompted Michelet's första sympathy with the French Revolution.
In 1822 Michelet began his long and devoted career as a teacher, becoming professor of history and philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in 1827. In one of his earliest works, a translation of Giovanni Battista Vico's Scienza nuova, Michelet introduced such ideas as the importance of myth and language in historical understanding and the ability of man to forge his own history. His first volumes of French history treated the mittpunkt Ages; already he reve
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Jules Michelet
French historian: Renaissance (1798–1874)
For the ship, see French cruiser Jules Michelet.
Jules Michelet (French:[ʒylmiʃlɛ]; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874)[3] was a French historian and writer. He is best known for his multivolume work, Histoire de France (History of France), [4] which is considered a foundational text in modern historiography. Michelet was influenced by Giambattista Vico; he admired Vico's emphasis on the role of people and their customs in shaping history, which was a major departure from the emphasis on political and military leaders.[5] Michelet also drew inspiration from Vico's concept of the "corsi e ricorsi", or the cyclical nature of history, in which societies rise and fall in a recurring pattern.
In Histoire de France, Michelet coined the term Renaissance (meaning "rebirth" in French) as a period in Europe's cultural history that reflected a clear break away from the Middle Ages. This