Albert Mathiez

Albert Mathiez

Albert Mathiez (1874, La Bruyère, Haute-Saône – 1932) was a French historian, known for his work on the French Revolution.

He was a student of Alphonse Aulard. His La Révolution française appeared in three volumes (1922-1924). He wrote it as a socialist , pro-Robespierre interpretation, where Aulard had been pro-Danton. He held the Sorbonne chair in French Revolutionary Studies and was the founder of the Societe des Etudes Robespierristes, which led to the creation of the highly regarded journal Annales historiques de la revolution francaise.

External links

• Works by Albert Mathiez at Project Gutenberg

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Name	Mathiez, Albert
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Date of birth	1874
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Date of death	1932
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