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LANFREY, PIERRE (1828-1877)

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LANFREY, See also:PIERRE (1828-1877) , See also:French historian and politician, was See also:born at See also:Chambery (See also:Savoie) on the 26th of See also:October 1828. His See also:father had been one of See also:Napoleon's See also:officers. The son studied See also:philosophy and See also:history in See also:Paris and wrote See also:historical See also:works of an See also:anti-clerical and rationalizing tendency. These included L'Eglise et See also:les philosophes ou X VIIIe siecle (1855; new edition, with a See also:notice of the author by E. de See also:Pressense, 1879); Essai sur la revolution frangaise (1858); Histoire politique See also:des pages (186o); Lettres d'Everard (186o), a novel in the See also:form of letters; Le Retablissement de la Pologne (1863). His magnum See also:opus was his Histoire de Napoleon I" (5 vols., 1867—1875 and 1886; Eng. trans., 4 vols., 1871—1879), which ceased unfortunately at the end of 1811 with the preparations for the See also:Russian See also:campaign of 1812. This See also:book, based on the See also:emperor's See also:correspondence published in 1858—1870, attempted the destruction of the legends which had grown up around his subject, and sought by a See also:critical examination of the documents to explain the motives of his policy. In his See also:desire to controvert current misconceptions and exaggerations of Napoleon's abilities Lanfrey unduly minimized his military and administrative See also:genius. A stanch republican, he was elected to the See also:National See also:Assembly in 1871, became See also:ambassador at See also:Bern (1871—18'13), and See also:life senator in 1875. He died at See also:Pau on the 15th of See also:November 1877. His fEuvres completes were published in 12 vols. (1879 seq.), and his Correspondance in 2 vols. (1885).

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