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Guizot and his publishers

Contrat entre Guizot et Hachette

Duke Victor de Broglie

Duc 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 […]

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D'après Paul BAUDRY (1828-1886), Léopold FLAMENG, Portrait de François Guizot. Gravure extraite de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts. XIXème fin. Coll. privée. Cliché François Louchet.

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 […]