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  Michelet, Jules - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
MICHELET, JULES [Michelet, Jules], 1798-1874, French writer, the greatest historian of the romantic school.
Michelet traced the biography of the nation as a whole, instead of concentrating on persons or groups of persons.
Michelet had vast knowledge of factual detail and original documents, but his history, especially the latter part, is marred by emotional bias against the clergy, the nobility, and the monarchic institutions.
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 The Populist Romance: Jules Michelet and the Populist Romance
Jules Michelet (1798-1874), the great nineteenth century French historian, is simply one among many throughout history and throughout the world who has given expression to these ideas; for most writers or intellectuals, however, the idea is not much more than a passing reference or a vague, half-articulated feeling that informs a work.
Michelet's view of history flows forth from his view of the people and is a necessary part of it; characteristics of the people are reflected in his historical vision and determine the nature of that vision.
Michelet strove in a variety of ways to overcome this anxiety, which in many respects is that same distance there has always been between the intellectual and the common man. One way was simply to repeat incessantly that he had not changed: Translation to come...
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 Jules Michelet History of France
As he grew to manhood Michelet was offered employment in the imperial printing office but his father, who had hopes for his evidently talented son, decided to keep him in school despite the relative poverty of his circumstances.
Michelet believed they were the true custodians of the spirit of Joan of Arc, and that their revolution had been a revelation of the inherent nobility of humankind.
Michelet, though not in any way identified with the Second Republic administratively had refused to take the oaths of allegiance to the empire of Emperor Napoleon III, and lost his position at the National Archives.
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 Jules Michelet
He was in the fullness of his powers, his studies had fed his natural aversion to the principles of authority and ecciesiasticism, and at a moment when the revived activity of the Jesuits caused some real and more pretended alarm he was appointed to the chair of history at the Collège de France.
The principles of the outbreak of 1848 were in the air, and Michelet was not the least important of those who condensed and propagated them: indeed his original lectures were of so incendiary a kind that the course had to be interdicted.
Michelet was perhaps the first historian to devote himself to anything like a picturesque history of the middle ages, and his account is one of the most vivid that exists.
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 Jules Michelet - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
JULES MICHELET (1798-1874), French historian, was born at Paris on the 21st of August 1798, of a family which had Huguenot traditions.
He was in the fullness of his powers, his studies had fed his natural aversion to the principles of authority and ecclesiasticism, and at a moment when the revived activity of the Jesuits caused some real and more pretended alarm he was appointed to the chair of history at the College de France.
Michelet was perhaps the first historian to devote himself to anything like a picturesque history of the middle ages, and his account is still the most vivid that exists.
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 Jules Michelet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jules Michelet (August 21, 1798 - February 9, 1874) was a French historian.
Michelet was born at Paris, of a family with Huguenot traditions.
Michelet's Origines du droit français, cherchées dans les symboles et les formules du droit universel was edited by Émile Faguet in 1890 and went into a second edition in 1900.
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 Jules Michelet
It was on this date, August 21, 1798, that French historian Jules Michelet was born in Paris, into a family with a Huguenot past.
After working with his father, a master printer, Jules passed the entrance exam for the Collège or Lycée Charlemagne, where he distinguished himself so admirably that, on his graduation, he was appointed to a professorship in history at the Collège Rollin.
It was Jules Michelet who said, in the introduction to the 1869 edition of his history of France, "Man is his own Prometheus.
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 Jules Michelet Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
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.
Michelet's seven-volume Histoire de la Révolution française illustrates his famous concept of history as a resurrection of the past in its spontaneous entirety.
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 Jules Michelet
Jules Michelet (August 21, 1798 - February 9, 1874) was a French historian.He was born at Paris, of a family with Huguenot traditions.His father was a master printer, not very prosperous, and Jules assisted him in the actual work of the press.
Although he was an ardent politician (having from his childhood embraced republicanism and a peculiar variety of romantic free-thought), he was first of all a man of letters and an inquirer into the history of the past.His earliest works were school textbooks.
See G Monod, Jules Michelet: Études sur la vie et ses œuvres (Paris, 1905).On his passing in 1874, Jules Michelet was interred in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Michelet, Jules   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Michelet, Jules MICHELET, JULES [Michelet, Jules], 1798-1874, French writer, the greatest historian of the romantic school.
A romantic nationalist, he was much influenced by Johann Gottfried von Herder and was a close friend and associate of Jules Michelet.
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 MICHELET, JULES (1798-... - Online Information article about MICHELET, JULES (1798-...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Riviera is (whether true to fact or not) one of the best things that Michelet has done.
Michelet was perhaps the first historian to devote himself to anything like a picturesque history of the See also:
criticism of it is perhaps contained in the opening words of the introduction to the last volume—" 1'A,ge me presse." The new republic was not altogether a restoration for Michelet, and his professorship at the College de France, of which he contended that he had never been properly deprived, was not given back to him.
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 L'Encyclopédie de L'Agora: Jules Michelet
"Jules Michelet naquit dans le chœur d’une ancienne église, « occupée », nous dit-il, « et non profanée » par l’imprimerie que son père y avait établie en pleine Terreur.
C’est surtout depuis le moment où, professeur au Collège de France, Michelet s’est mêlé aux luttes des partis et a conçu son rôle d’historien comme une sorte d’apostolat, qu’il a perdu quelque chose de sa sérénité de penseur et de sa perfection d’artiste.
Ce parcours est celui de Jules Michelet dans son ouvrage consacré aux insectes, publié en 1857.
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 Michelet Jules - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Michelet Jules - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Michelet, Jules (1798-1874), French historian and moralist, best known for his 17-volume Histoire de France (History of France, 1833-1867).
The term renaissance, meaning literally “rebirth”, was first employed in 1855 by the French historian Jules Michelet to refer to the “discovery of...
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 Antenati: Jules Michelet
Jules Michelet nacque a Paris nel 1798 (morì a Hyères [Provenza] nel 1874), fu direttore della sezione storica degli Archivi nazionali (1831), ebbe la cattedra di storia del Collège de France (1838).
Per il romanticista Michelet la storia doveva essere «la resurrezione della vita integrale del passato», operata mediante il documento, il simbolo e la poesia, e rivissuta con appassionata e enfatica partecipazione.
Una delle caratteristiche di Michelet scrittore è l'uso di una prosa impetuosa, davvero romanticista.
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 Jules Michelet Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Michelet's classic study of medieval superstition brings to the general public's attention one of the truly great sociological works of modern times, revealing an age of unbridled pleasure and sensuality, of luxury beyond imagination, and squalor beyond endurance.
Published in France in 1954, Roland Barthes's "Michelet" inspired a revival of interest in the great 19th century French historian.
Neither a biography nor a critique, "Michelet" is Barthes's effort to give the reader a sense of the whole man.
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 Jules Michelet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He was born at Paris, of a family with Huguenot traditions.
Although he was an ardent politician (having from his childhood embraced republicanism and a peculiar variety of romantic free-thought), he was first of all a man of letters and an inquirer into the history of the past.
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 Amazon.fr : Histoire de France - Jules Michelet: Logiciels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
'Histoire de France" de Jules Michelet, la première compilation des oeuvres majeures de notre patrimoine historique sur cédérom, reproduit l'intégralité des 27 volumes de l'Histoire de France de Jules Michelet.
Les géographes, les généalogistes, les historiens des sciences et des arts découvriront des témoignages et des récits bouleversants ou parfois féroces tels que Jules Michelet a voulu nous les transmettre.
Jules Michelet, un des pères fondateurs de la Science Historique moderne, nous conte l'histoire de la France à travers vingt siècles.
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 Jules MICHELET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jules Michelet naît en 1798 dans une chapelle désaffectée située au croisement de la rue de Tracy (n°14) et de la rue Saint-Denis, dans le quartier des Halles.
Michelet vient de perdre sa femme en 1839 lorsqu’il s’éprend de la mère d’un de ses élèves, Alfred Poullain-Dumesnil.
Bonjour, Je viens d’acquérir une lettre autographe de Jules Michelet, datée du 30 juin 1866 et adressée à un médecin de Rouen.
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 AllRefer.com - Jules Michelet (Historians, European, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
AllRefer.com - Jules Michelet (Historians, European, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Jules Michelet[zhUl mEshulA´] Pronunciation Key, 1798–1874, French writer, the greatest historian of the romantic school.
His major work is his Histoire de France (many volumes, 1833–67; several partial translations into English); its style, its emotional strength, and its powerful evocation make it a masterpiece of French literature.
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MICHELET, JULES (1798-1874) A prolific historian who viewed the Great French Revolution of 1789 as a product of the misery of the masses and who was recognized in the twentieth century as a forerunner of the
Although theMarxists criticized him because of his faith in the reconciliation of classes and the permanence of the nation state, the twentieth historian Lucien Febvre, a founder of the
Michelet, Historian: Rebirth and Romanticism in Nineteenth Century France
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Witchcraft, Sorcery, And Superstition, a classic study of medieval hexes and spell-casting, is one of the truly great sociological works of modern times.
Michelet draws vivid word pictures of the witch-hunts, the Black Masses, the reign of Satan, and the wierd rights of the damned.
Here is an age of unbridled pleasure and sensuality, of luxury beyond imagining, and squalor beyond endurance.
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 Jules Michelet — Infoplease.com
Many of Michelet's other political and historical works are outgrowths of his history of France; especially notable are
Between myth and history: Michelet, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, and the structural analysis of myth.(Jules, Michelet, Claude Levi-Strauss,......
The angel's enigmatic eyes, or the gothic beauty of catastrophic history in W. Sebald's "Air War and Literature".
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 Jules Michelet.: How to write a Paper - How to write a Term Paper
Jules Michelet.: How to write a Paper - How to write a Term Paper
This is a brief biographical sketch of Jules Michelet, one of the best French historians, certainly the most prominent of the 19th century.
A precursor to current-day "people's historians" like Howard Zinn, his histories were based on the perspective of the common people of France, and tried to avoid the "great men and war" style of history so common in Napoleonic France.
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Michelet's Poetic Vision : A Romantic Philosophy of Nature, Man, & Woman
Mother Death : The Journal of Jules Michelet, 1815-1850
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 Michelet, Jules - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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Michelet, Jules, 1798-1874, French writer, the greatest historian of the romantic school.
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 Cours Au College De France (1838-1851) by Jules Michelet, Oscar A. Haac, Irene Tieder, Paul Viallaneix - 2070733904
Cours Au College De France (1838-1851) by Jules Michelet, Oscar A. Haac, Irene Tieder, Paul Viallaneix - 2070733904
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