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Albert Sorel

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Albert Sorel


Born
in Honfleur, Normandie, France
August 13, 1842

Died
June 29, 1906

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See also: Albert-Émile Sorel (1876-1938), homme de lettres français.

Albert Sorel (13 August 1842 – 29 June 1906) was a French historian. He was born at Honfleur and remained throughout his life a lover of his native Normandy. His father, a rich manufacturer, wanted him to take over the business but his literary vocation prevailed. He went to live in Paris, where he studied law and, after a prolonged stay in Germany, entered the Foreign Office (1866). He had strongly developed literary and artistic tastes, was an enthusiastic musician (even composing a little), and wrote both poetry and novels (La Grande Falaise, 1785–1793, Le Docteur Egra in 1873); but he was not a socialite.

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“Having risked the loss of Canada in order to conquer Silesia for the King of Prussia, France was to lose it finally in the next war for the pleasure of attempting to restore that province to the Queen of Hungary. France, having played the game of Prussia in the War of the Austrian Succession, was to play that of Austria in the Seven Years War.”
Albert Sorel, Europe and the French Revolution: The Political Traditions of the Old Régime