Background
Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière was born at Riom on the 10th of June 1782; the son of an advocate.
Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière was born at Riom on the 10th of June 1782; the son of an advocate.
At the age of sixteen Barante entered the École Polytechnique at Paris.
In 1806 Barante obtained the post of auditor to the council of state. After being employed in several political missions in Germany, Poland, and Spain, during the next two years, he became prefect of Vendée. At the time of the return of Napoleon I he held the prefecture of Nantes, and this post he immediately resigned. On the second restoration of the Bourbons he was made councillor of state and secretary-general of the ministry of the interior. After filling for several years the post of director-general of indirect taxes, he was created in 1819 as a peer of France and was prominent among the Liberals. After the revolution of July 1830, Barante was appointed ambassador to Turin, and five years later to St Petersburg. Throughout the reign of Louis Philippe he remained a supporter of the government; and after the fall of the monarchy, in February 1848, he withdrew from political affairs and retired to his country seat in Auvergne. He died at the Castle of Barante, near Thiers, in 1866.
Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière was a leading member of the narrative school of Romanticist historians who portrayed historical episodes with high literary style and in the vivid and intimate manner of a reportage of current events. Barante's Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de Valois, which appeared in a series of volumes between 1824 and 1828, procured him immediate admission to the Académie Française. Shortly before his retirement Barante had been made grand cross of the Legion of Honour.
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
Barante was a member of the Académie Française.
