Chronology

  • October 4, 1787: birth in Nîmes.

  • 1799-1805: stay in Geneva.

  • 1812: marriage to Pauline de Meulan. Professor of Modern History at the Faculty of Letters in Paris.

  • 1814-1820: high-ranking civil servant during the liberal phase of the Restoration.

  • 1820-1829: history lectures at the Sorbonne (suspended in 1822, resumed in 1828), worked as a historian and essayist.

  • 1829-1832: publication of six volumes of lectures on modern history: Histoire de la civilisation en Europe. Histoire de la civilisation en France.

  • January 1830-February 1848: Deputy for Calvados.

  • August 3-November 2, 1830: Minister of the Interior.

  • October 1832–April 1837: Minister of Public Instruction.

  • March 1833: death of his second wife Eliza Dillon, married in 1828.

  • 1836: elected to the Académie Française. Bought Val-Richer, near to Lisieux.

  • February-October 1840: Ambassador to London.

  • October 1840-February 1848: Minister of Foreign Affairs.

  • August 1841-February 1848: President of the General Council of Calvados.

  • September 19, 1847: President of the Council.

  • March 1848-July 1849: exile in London with his three children.

  • 1856: publication of the sixth and final volume of the History of the English Revolution, begun in 1826.

  • January 1857: death of Princess von Lieven, following a twenty-year liaison.

  • 1857-1868: publication of the eight volumes of Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de mon temps.

  • January 1861: the memorable reception of Lacordaire at the Académie française.

  • 1864-1868: three volumes of Méditations sur la religion chrétienne.

  • February 1870: President of the Commission relating to higher education.

  • June 1872: decisive participation in the General Synod of the Reformed Church of France.

  • September 12, 1874: death at Val-Richer.