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Born March 8, 1847 • Paris • France
Died February 19, 1923 (aged 75) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Napoleon I
Pius VII
pope
Gourgaud, lithograph by C. Chasselat, 1821
Gaspard Gourgaud
French historian
Joséphine
Joséphine
empress of France
Karl Schulmeister
French general
Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, duke de Parme
French statesman
Duroc, portrait by Jacques-Louis David; in the Musée Léon Bonnat, Bayonne, Fr.
Géraud-Christophe-Michel Duroc, duke de Frioul
French general
Duke d'Enghien, print
Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duke d’Enghien
French prince
Nicolas-François, Count Mollien
French statesman
Pius VI
Pius VI
pope
Marie-Louise
Marie-Louise
Austrian archduchess
Sir Hudson Lowe, engraving
Sir Hudson Lowe
British general
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian and political writer
Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889
Hippolyte Taine
French critic and historian
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
Fernand Braudel
French historian and educator
Adolphe Thiers
Adolphe Thiers
French statesman and historian
Marc Bloch
French historian
Lucien Paul Victor Febvre
French historian
Jules Michelet, detail of an oil painting by Thomas Couture; in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris.
Jules Michelet
French historian
François Guizot
François Guizot
French politician and historian

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