biography
pronunciation:
[meeshlay]
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| lived:
| (1798–1874)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Paris, France. He taught history and philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure until 1836, then at the Collège de France in 1838, where his course was suspended during the Second Empire to which he was opposed. The greatest of his many historical works is the monumental Histoire de France (24 vols, 1833–67). By refusing to swear allegiance to Louis Napoleon he lost his appointments, and henceforth worked mostly in Brittany and the Riviera. His second wife, Adèle Mialaret, collaborated with him in several nature books, including L'Oiseau (1856) and La Mer (1861). |
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