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MICHAUD, JOSEPH FRANCOIS (1767–1839)
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See also:MICHAUD, See also:JOSEPH See also:FRANCOIS (1767–1839) , See also:French historian and publicist, was See also:born of an old See also:family on the 19th of See also:June 1767, at See also:Athens, See also:Savoy, was educated at Bourg-en-See also:Bresse, and afterwards engaged in See also:literary See also:work at See also:Lyons, where the events of 1789 first called out the strong dislike to revolutionary principles which manifested itself throughout the See also:rest of his See also:life. In 1791 he went to See also:Paris, where, not without danger, he took See also:part in editing several royalist See also:journals. In 1796 he became editor of La Quotidienne, for his connexion with which he was arrested after the 13th of Vendemiaire; he succeeded in escaping his captors, but was sentenced to See also:death See also:par contumace by the military See also:council. Having resumed the editorship of his newspaper on the See also:establishment of the See also:Directory, he was again proscribed on the 18th of Fructidor, but at the See also:close of two years returned to Paris when the consulate had superseded the Directory. His See also:Bourbon sympathies led to a brief imprisonment in 'Soo, and on his See also:release he for the See also:time abandoned journalism, and began to write or edit books. Along with his See also:brother and two colleagues he published in ,8o6 a Biographic moderne, ou dictionnaire See also:des hommes qui se sont fait un nom en See also:Europe depuis 1789, the earliest work of its See also:kind; and in 1811 appeared the first See also:volume of his Histoire des croisades and also the first volume of his Biographic universelle. In 1814 he resumed the editorship of La Quotidienne, and in the same See also:year was elected Academician. In 1815 his brochure entitled Histoire des quinze semaines ou le dernier regne de See also:Bonaparte met with extraordinary success, passing through twenty-seven See also:editions within a very See also:short time. His See also:political services were now rewarded with the See also:cross of an officer in the See also:Legion of See also:Honour and the modest See also:post of See also: Poujoulat, consisting practically of discussions and elucidations of various points in that work, was afterwards published (Correspondence d'orient, 7 vols., 1833–1835). Like the Histoire, it is more interesting than exact. The Bibliotheque des croisades, in four volumes more, contained the " Pieces justificatives " of the Histoire. Michaud died on the 3oth of See also:September 1839, at Passy, where his See also:home had been since 1832. His Histoire des croisades was published in its final See also:form in six volumes in 184o under the editorship of his friend Poujoulat (9th ed., with appendix, by Huillard-Breholles, 1856). Michaud, along with Poujoulat, also edited Nouvelle collection des memoires pour servir a l'histoire de See also:France (32 vols., 1836–1844). See Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol. vii. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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