Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet, né le 21 août 1798 à Paris et mort le 9 février 1874 à Hyères, est un historien français.

Libéral et anticlérical, il est parmi les grands écrivains de l'époque romantique, il écrit différents essais et ouvrages de mœurs dont certains lui valent des ennuis avec l'Église et le pouvoir politique. Il entame aussi une monumentale Histoire de France, qui sera suivie d'une non moins monumentale Histoire de la Révolution.

Jules Michelet (French: [%CA%92yl miʃəlɛ]; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions.

In his 1855 work Histoire de France (History of France), Jules Michelet was the first historian to use and define the word Renaissance ("Re-birth" in French), as a period in Europe's cultural history that represented a drastic break from the Middle Ages (which he loathed), creating a modern understanding of humanity and its place in the world. Historian François Furet wrote that his History of the French Revolution (1847) remains "the cornerstone of all revolutionary historiography and is also a literary monument." His aphoristic style emphasized his anti-clerical republicanism.

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