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 […]