Michelet, Jules

Michelet, Jules, French historian, born in Paris; was the author among other works of a “History of France” in 18 vols., and a “History of the Revolution” in 7 vols.; he cherished a great animosity against the priests, and especially the Jesuits, whom he assailed with remorseless invective; he was from 1838, for 13 years, professor of History in the College of France, but he lost the appointment because he refused to take the oath of allegiance to Louis Napoleon; from this date he abandoned all interest in public affairs, and gave himself to the quiet study of nature and animal life; wrote on birds and insects, on the sea, on women, on love, on witchcraft, and the Bible and humanity; as a writer of history he gave his imagination free scope, and he painted it less as it was than as he regarded it from his own personal likes and dislikes (1798-1874).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

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