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BARANTE, AMABLE See also:GUILLAUME PROSPER BRUGIERE, See also:BARON DE (1782-1866) , See also:French statesman and historian, the son of an See also:advocate, was See also:born at See also:Riom on the loth of See also:June 1782. At the See also:age of sixteen he entered the Ecole Polytechnique at 38o See also:Paris, and at twenty obtained his first See also:appointment in the See also:civil service. His abilities secured him rapid promotion, and in 18o6 he obtained the See also:post of auditor to the See also:council of See also:state. After being employed in several See also:political See also:missions in See also:Germany, See also:Poland and See also:Spain, during the next two years, he became See also:prefect of See also:Vendee. At the See also:time of the return of See also:Napoleon I. he held the prefecture of See also:Nantes, and this post he immediately resigned. On the second restoration of the Bourbons he was made councillor of state and secretary-See also:general of the See also:ministry of the interior. After filling for several years the post of director-general of indirect taxes, he was created in 1819 a peer of See also:France and was prominent among the Liberals. After the revolution of See also:July 183o, M. de Barante was appointed See also:ambassador to See also:Turin, and five years later to St See also:Petersburg. Throughout the reign of See also:Louis Philippe he remained a supporter of the See also:government; and after the fall of the See also:monarchy, in See also:February 1848, he withdrew from political affairs and retired to his See also:country seat in See also:Auvergne. Shortly before his retirement he had been made See also:grand See also:cross of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour. Barante's Histoire See also:des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de See also:Valois, which appeared in a See also:series of volumes between 1824 and 1828, procured him immediate See also:admission to the French See also:Academy. Its narrative qualities, and purity of See also:style, won high praise from the romantic school, but it exhibits a lack of the See also:critical sense and of scientific scholarship.

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literary See also:works are a Tableau de la litterature francaise au dixhuitieme siecle, of which several See also:editions were published; Des communes et de l'aristocratie (1821); a French See also:translation of the dramatic works of See also:Schiller; Questions constitutionnelles (185o); Histoire de la See also:Convention Nationale, which appeared in six volumes between 1851 and 1853; Histoire du Directoire de la Republique francaise (1855); Etudes historiques et biographiques (1857); La See also:Vie politique de M. Royer-Collard (1861). The version of See also:Hamlet for See also:Guizot's See also:Shakespeare was his See also:work. He died on the 22nd of See also:November 1866. His Souvenirs were published by his See also:grandson (Paris, 189o-99). See also the See also:article by Guizot in the Revue des deux Mondes, July 1867.

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