Albert Mathiez

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Albert Mathiez


Born
in La Bruyère, Haute-Saône, France
January 10, 1874

Died
February 26, 1932

Genre

Influences


Albert-Xavier-Émile Mathiez was a French historian, best known for his Marxist interpretation of the Great French Revolution.

He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1894, by which time he had already displayed a strong anti-clerical bias. After graduation, he passed the aggregation in history and after doing his military service entered the teaching profession. He taught at a variety of local lycèes until he completed his doctorate which he wrote under the direction of François Victor Alphonse Aulard, then the leading historian of the Revolution, who admired Georges Danton.

Mathiez was greatly influenced by Jean Jaurès, who propounded a more radical economic and social interpretation. At first a good friend of Aulard, he broke with his m
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