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Aulard was born on July 19, 1849, at Montbron in Charente.
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Aulard was born on July 19, 1849, at Montbron in Charente.
Admitted to the École Normale in 1867, he received his doctorate in 1877.
Having obtained the degree of doctor of letters in 1877 with a Latin thesis upon C. Asinius Pollion and a French one upon Giacomo Leopardi (whose works he subsequently translated into French), he made a study of parliamentary oratory during the French Revolution, and published two volumes upon Les Orateurs de la constituante (1882) and upon Les Orateurs de la Ugislative et de la convention (1885).
For the Societe de 1'Histoire de la Revolution Frangaise, which brought out under his supervision an important periodical publication called La Revolution franqaise, he produced the Registre des deliberations du consulat provisoire (1894), and L'Etat de la France en Van VIII et en Van IX, with the reports of the prefects (1897), besides editing various works or memoirs written by men of the Revolution, such as J. C. Bailleul, Chaumette, Fournier (called the American), Herault de Sechelles, and Louvet de Couvrai.
But these large collections of documents are not his entire output.
Besides a little pamphlet upon Danton, he has written a Histoire politique de la Revolution franqaise (1901), and a number of articles which have been collected in volumes under the title Etudes et leqons sur la Revolution franqaise (5 vols. , 1893 - 1908).
In a volume entitled Taine, historien de la Revolution franqaise (igo&), Aulardhas submitted the method of the eminent philosopher to a criticism, severe, perhaps even unjust, but certainly well-informed.
See A. Mathiez, " M. Aulard, historien et professeur, " in the Revue de la Revolution franqaise (July 1908).
Aulard insisted that the Revolution should be considered with the same critical detachment as all other periods of history.
Yet he also insisted that fervor was necessary for genuine comprehension.
"He who does not sympathize with the Revolution sees only the surface.
In order to understand it, it is necessary to love it. "
There was, however, no logic to the events themselves, which resulted from the complex interaction of men, ideas, and circumstances.
He believed he would be remembered mainly as the editor of Acts of the Committee of Public Safety (26 vols. , 1889 - 1923).
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In his works he clearly adhered to anti-clerical positions.
As one who had come of age during the early years of the Third Republic, Aulard viewed the Revolution as primarily a political movement, the history of the origins of democracy and republicanism.
Democracy he saw as the logical consequence of the principle of equality, and republicanism the consequence of national sovereignty.
Aulard remains controversial of his political positions. His history was a series of narrow studies of constitutional, institutional and political developments in stark contrast with the wide-ranging imagination of his leading student Albert Mathiez. Conservatives argue that Aulard's anti-clerical and radical-republican position skewed his research findings.
He built a neo-Jacobin legacy with attention more to raison d'état than to party division. He championed international, liberal democracy and human rights.
Aulard's historiography was based on positivism. The assumption was that methodology was all-important and the historian's duty was to present in chronological order the duly verified facts, to analyze relations between facts, and provide the most likely interpretation. Full documentation based on research in the primary sources was essential. He took the lead and publication very important documents, and in training advanced students in the proper use and analysis of primary sources.