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He was born on August 21, 1798 in Paris. His father was a printer by trade, and his mother's family was from peasant stock.
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(Long out of print, Jules Michelet's classic study of medi...)
Long out of print, Jules Michelet's classic study of medieval superstition has been reprinted in this edition to bring the general public's attention to one of the truly great sociological works of modern times. Michelet brilliantly recreates the Europe of the Middle Ages, the centuries of fierce religious intolerance, the Inquisition and the auto-da-fe. He depicts the feudal barons, the great manors, the fiefs and serfs... and the witches, hobgoblins and wizards of whom the masses lived in mortal fear. Michelet draws flaming word pictures of the witch hunts, the Black Masses, the reign of Satan, and the weird rites of the damned. Here is the age of unbridled pleasure and sensuality, of luxury beyond imagination and squalor beyond endurance. Here is the time when a girl might be accused of witchcraft merely if she were young and pretty and did not survive the test of immersion in water or boiling oil. Here is the day of beatings, floggings, tortures and summary decapitations. Encyclopedia Britannica called the book, "The most important work on medieval superstition yet written." It is indeed one of the great works on the Age of Darkness.
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Considéré comme étant l'un des grands historiens du XIXe siècle bien qu'aujourd'hui controversé, Jules MICHELET (1798-1874), pour comprendre la formation de la monarchie a voulu en étudier la ruine en écrivant Histoire de la Révolution Française. Doué dun immense talent littéraire, Michelet parmi ses uvres les plus célèbres avait écrit précédemment Histoire de France. La réalisation de cet ouvrage lui donna un avantage incontestable sur tous ceux qui avait entrepris la tâche difficile du récit de la révolution. En effet, la connaissance complète de la vie politique, de la France depuis la conquête des Gaules par la race germanique jusquà la convocation des états-généraux fut un sérieux atout. Il nétait pas exposé, comme la plupart de ses prédécesseurs, à parler du passé daprès de vagues souvenirs. Ecrit au plus près des archives, ce grand récit promettait au lecteur des explications précieuses sur les origines lointaines des faits qui se sont produits dans les dernières années du XVIIIe siècle. Le lecteur y vit les évènements presque heure après heure, mais aussi l'engagement et les convictions de Michelet. « Toute histoire de la Révolution jusqu'ici était essentiellement monarchique. Celle-ci est la première républicaine, celle qui a brisé les idoles et les dieux. De la première page à la dernière, elle n'a eu qu'un héros : le peuple. » Jules Michelet. Cette uvre est répartie en 7 tomes, à savoir : Tome 1 : avril 1789 - 6 octobre 1789 Tome 2 : 6 octobre 1789 juillet 1991 Tome 3 : juin 1791 août 1792 Tome 4 : août 1792 novembre 1792 Tome 5 : octobre 1792 mai 1793 Tome 6 : mai 1793 décembre 1793 Tome 7 : décembre 1793 juillet 1794 Vous retrouverez tous nos livres en tapant « ebouquin » dans le moteur de recherche.
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Originally published in 1858 as a portion of the authors larger Joan of Arc: Or, The Maid of Orleans, this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 24 pages, recounts the trial and execution of the fifteenth-century French teenager who led her countrys armies against the English in the Hundred Years War but was later handed over to the enemy. Sample passage: They had been afraid of a girl, and it was not very certain but that, chained as she was, they felt fear of her still, though, seemingly, not of her, but of the devil, whose agent she was. At least, they endeavored both to believe and to have it believed so. But there was an obstacle in the way of this, for she was said to be a virgin; and it was a notorious and well-ascertained fact that the devil could not make a compact with a virgin. The coolest head among the English, the Duke of Bedford, resolved to have the point cleared up; and his wife, the Duchess, entrusted the matter to some matrons, who declared Jeanne to be a maid virgin; a favorable declaration which turned against her by giving rise to another superstitious notion; to wit, that her virginity constituted her strength, her power, and that to deprive her of it was to disarm her, was to break the charm, and lower her to the level of other women. The poor girls only defense against such a danger had been wearing male attire; though, strange to say, no one had ever seemed able to understand her motive for wearing it. About the author: Jules Michelet (1798-1874) was a French historian. Other works include History of France, History of the French Revolution, and Satanism and Witchcraft.
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He was born on August 21, 1798 in Paris. His father was a printer by trade, and his mother's family was from peasant stock.
A place was offered him in the imperial printing office, but his father was able to send him to the famous Collège or Lycée Charlemagne, where he distinguished himself. He passed the university examination in 1821, and was soon appointed to a professorship of history in the Collège Rollin.
In 1822 Michelet began his long and devoted career as a teacher, becoming professor of history and philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in 1827. In one of his earliest works, a translation of Giovanni Battista Vico's Scienza nuova, Michelet introduced such ideas as the importance of myth and language in historical understanding and the ability of man to forge his own history. His first volumes of French history treated the Middle Ages; already he revealed a passionate adherence to the role of the common people in history. When Michelet joined the faculty at the Collège de France in 1838, his writing became more liberal and more oriented toward contemporary issues. Collaboration with a colleague, Edgar Quinet, on a book against the Jesuits raised the Church's suspicions.
In addition, Michelet was waking up to the esclavage (slavery) of classes in an industrial society, a concern he expressed in his moving book Le Peuple (1846).
The failure of the 1848 revolutions, Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat of 1851, and the proclamation of the Second Empire in 1852 profoundly disturbed Michelet. Although he was not exiled, he spent the following year in Italy.
Inspired by his wife's love of nature, he wrote four poetical studies: The Bird (1856), The Insect (1857), The Sea (1861), and The Mountain (1867). These fecund later years saw two other outstanding books: one on the medieval witch (La Sorcière, 1862) and the other on world religions, including an attack on Christianity (La Bible de l'humanité, 1864).
Michelet finally completed his history of France in 1867. Working continuously, he had written three volumes on 19th-century France up to the time of his death on February 9, 1874, when he suffered a heart attack at Hyères.
In his 1855 work, Histoire de France (History of France), Jules Michelet was the first historian to use and define the word Renaissance ('Re-birth' in French), as a period in Europe's cultural history that represented a drastic break from the Middle Ages (which he loathed), creating a modern understanding of humanity and its place in the world. Historian François Furet wrote that his History of the French Revolution (1847) remains "the cornerstone of all revolutionary historiography and is also a literary monument. "
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(Product Description Long out of print, Jules Michelet's c...)
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His aphoristic style emphasized his anti-clerical republicanism.
The family was poor, especially after Napoleon ordered the closing of his father's press. This family background prompted Michelet's initial sympathy with the French Revolution.
Thus Michelet and other writers of the period, encouraged by the revolutionary spirit growing since 1830, were attracted to the French Revolution. Michelet's seven-volume Histoire de la Révolution française illustrates his famous concept of history as a resurrection of the past in its spontaneous entirety.
Although in this immense achievement the portraits of certain revolutionaries are masterfully drawn, Michelet is more sympathetic when narrating crowd scenes, for example, the fall of the Bastille.
In 1824 he married, but the name of his wife is unknown. Worn by arduous work and depressing historical events, Michelet discovered new life in his second marriage with 20-year-old Atanaïs Mialaret.
