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MONTEIL, AMANS ALEXIS (1769–1850)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 766 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTEIL, AMANS See also:ALEXIS (1769–1850) , See also:French historian, was See also:born at See also:Rodez in 1769, and died at Cely (See also:Seine-et-See also:Marne) in 185o. His tastes were See also:historical, and he taught See also:history at Rodez, at See also:Fontainebleau and at St Cyr. He held that a disproportionate importance had been given to See also:kings, their ministers and generals, and that it was necessary rather to study the See also:people. In his Histoire See also:des See also:francais des See also:divers etas, ou histoire de See also:France aux cinq derniers siecles (10 vols., 1828–1844) he undertook to describe the different classes and occupations of the community. For this he made a collection of See also:manuscripts, which he sold in 1835 (many of them passed into the library of See also:Sir See also:Thomas Philipps), See also:drawing up a See also:catalogue under the singular See also:title of Traite de materiaux manuscrits de divers genres d'histoire. He boasted of having been the first to write really " See also:national " history, and he wished further to show this in a memoir entitled L'See also:Influence de l'histoire des divers etats, ou comment fill allee la France si elle eat eu See also:cette histoire. (184o; reprinted in 1841 under 766 the title: See also:Les Francais pour la premiere fois clans l'histoire de France, ou poetique de l'histoire des divers etats). Monteil did not invent the history of See also:civilization, but he was one of the first in France, and perhaps in See also:Europe, to point out its extreme importance. He revised the third edition of his history himself (5 vols., 1848); a See also:fourth appeared after his See also:death with a See also:preface by Jules See also:Janin (5 vols., 1853).

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