Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs, François Guizot’s histories of the English revolution, and Henriette Guizot de Witt’s women’s history par Mihoko Suzuki (Professor of English and Cooper Fellow in the Humanities, Emerita, Founding Director, Center for the Humanities, University of Miami) Taylor &Francis Online – June 2023
Les deux visages de la bourgeoisie [The Two Faces of the Bourgeoisie] by Luc Ferry Le Figaro, 29 December 2022. It is from a “modernist” perspective that the reconciliation of the bohemian and the bourgeois will continue to take place, within the concepts of innovation and of a break with tradition.
Guizot et l’esclavage [Guizot and slavery] by Jean Bergeret, 2020 Here are a few lines to help better understand Guizot’s position on slavery.
François Guizot, l’incarnation d’un siècle [François Guizot, the Embodiment of a Century] by Stéphane Ratti Le Figaro, le 13 September 2019. To mark the 145th anniversary of François Guizot’s death, Professor Stéphane Ratti traces the career of this great historian and statesman, unjustly overlooked today, whose life nonetheless reflects the full richness of the nineteenth century.
How could the conservative François Guizot (1787-1874) be associated with the abolitionist movement when, after years in high political office, he had to leave it in February 1848, to be replaced by a regime one of whose first acts was to abolish slavery in the French colonies? […]. This article is also published in English in the French Studies Bulletin, Oxford Journal, 2009. It can be downloaded here. To cite it: Roger Little. FRANÇOIS GUIZOT AND THE SLAVE TRADE Fr Stud Bull (2009) 30 (110): 3-5 doi:10.1093/frebul/ktp002
Un maire noir sous la Révolution, [A Black Mayor during the Revolution] by Roger Little, published in the journal Les traces noires de l’histoire en Occident [Black Traces of History in the West], L’Harmattan, 2005. Louis Guizot, the son of a French notable and a Black enslaved woman, was the first Black mayor of a French commune, elected in 1790. His fight for tolerance cost him his life during the Revolution.
Guizot et ses éditeurs, [Guizot and his publishers] by Laurent Theis, BSHPF, t. 159-IV, 2013, pp. 657-687. Orphaned and without fortune, raised in straitened circumstances, François Guizot (1787-1874) lived for the most part, throughout his long career, on the proceeds of his intellectual and literary work. The least one can say is that politics, which he practised between 1814 and 1848, not without interruptions, in various capacities – senior civil servant, deputy, ambassador and minister – and right up to the summit of power, did not make him rich. […]
Guizot et le Salon de 1810, [Guizot and the Salon of 1810] by Laurent Theis The Salon of 1810 opened to the public on Monday 5 November, for five months. François Guizot had turned 23 just a month earlier. At the end of December, the bookseller Maradan published a 130-page work entitled De l’état des beaux-arts en France et du Salon de 1810 [On the State of the Fine Arts in France and the Salon of 1810], naming its author, M. Guizot. It was the first book explicitly signed by him, at the threshold of a body of work that would include a great many more. […]
François Guizot ministre de l’Instruction publique, [François Guizot, Minister of Public Instruction] by Laurent Theis, Commentaire, n° 117, Spring 2007, pp. 183-192. When, on 11 October 1832, François Guizot became the seventh Minister of Public Instruction of the July Monarchy, he had just turned forty-five. A man in his prime, he had twenty years of academic, administrative and political experience behind him. In educational matters, he had long been a recognised practitioner and theorist. […]
Les relations de Guizot avec Montalembert et les catholiques libéraux, [Guizot’s Relations with Montalembert and the Liberal Catholics] by Laurent Theis To link the names of François Guizot and Charles de Montalembert might seem paradoxical, and this apparent paradox did not escape their contemporaries. On the one hand, the Calvinist bourgeois; on the other, the ultramontane aristocrat; the one born without civil status and risen through work and intelligence, the other heir to a name and to a seat as a peer of France. And finally the difference in age, which counted for a great deal at the time: 23 years. Their chance meeting and their passing clashes led to a rapprochement and then to a close friendship, whose springs and main stages are set out here. They shed light on many questions facing nineteenth-century French society about the relations between politics and religion, between Christianity and liberty. They also reveal two powerful and engaging temperaments.[…]
François Guizot et Henri Lacordaire, [François Guizot and Henri Lacordaire] by Laurent Theis in Lacordaire et quelques autres… Religion et politique (dir. Marie-Odile Meunier), Presses de l’Université des Sciences sociales de Toulouse, pp. 159-170, 2003. Among the Catholics – I mean those who would today be called committed Catholics – with whom François Guizot associated, Henri Lacordaire does not rank at the very forefront. Montalembert is far better placed in this respect, as an abundant correspondence attests, revealing in the last years an intimacy of mind and heart whose closeness long went unsuspected. But that subject has already been sketched out, which is not the case for the relations between Guizot and Lacordaire, between a “Catholic of Protestantism” and a “Protestant of Catholicism”, to use the expression of Eugène de Margerie, a liberal Catholic contemporary of the two men. […]
Les Guizot et l’Angleterre, [The Guizots and England] by Laurent Theis, Commentaire, n° 140, Winter 2012-2013, pp. 1111-1119. On Thursday 27 February 1840, François Guizot, then aged 52, set foot on English soil for the first time. He did so in a professional capacity, if not out of duty, as King Louis-Philippe’s ambassador to the young Queen Victoria. […]
François Guizot : quelques lettres inédites (1861- 1871), [François Guizot: Some Unpublished Letters (1861-1871)] by Laurent Theis, BSHPF, t. 157-3, 2011, pp. 359-385. This collection provides valuable information on the history of French Protestantism in the nineteenth century in its various dimensions, and on the personality of François Guizot, his activity, his influence and his reputation. We present here a few samples of these documents, which many researchers have consulted and sometimes quoted, but which have never been published.[…]