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Duke Victor de Broglie
In his will dated June 19, 1839 Duke Victor de Broglie wrote of his links with François Guizot: “I consider our long friendship as one of the most precious gifts that God has given me”, which was the greatest expression of emotion that this very reserved personality was capable of. Their friendship, already of some […]
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 […]
A life in the century
1787-1815: his early years François Guizot left his mark on the political, intellectual and spiritual life of France for over sixty years through his personality, his thinking and his actions. He was born under a divine right Monarchy and died when the Third Republic had finally been established. Originating from a bourgeois Protestant family in […]
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François Guizot, born in 1787 during the reign of Louis XVI, was one of the most prominent figures in France and in Europe for over half a century until his death in 1874, when Mac Mahon was President of the newly established Third Republic. A Protestant bourgeois, he was considered to be the greatest historian […]