Jean Michel Constant Leber (1780–1859) was a French historian and bibliophile. Leber's first work was a poem on Joan of Arc (1804). In the same year, he wrote a Grammaire général synthétique, which attracted the attention of J.M. de Gérando, then secretary-general to the ministry of the interior. The latter found him a minor post in his department, which left him leisure for his historical work. He even took him to Italy when Napoleon was trying to organize, after French models, the Roman states which he had taken from the Pope in 1809. Leber however did not stay there long, for he considered the attacks on the temporal property of the Holy See to be sacrilegious.Jean Michel Constant Leber (1780–1859) was a French historian and bibliophile. Leber's first work was a poem on Joan of Arc (1804). In the same year, he wrote a Grammaire général synthétique, which attracted the attention of J.M. de Gérando, then secretary-general to the ministry of the interior. The latter found him a minor post in his department, which left him leisure for his historical work. He even took him to Italy when Napoleon was trying to organize, after French models, the Roman states which he had taken from the Pope in 1809. Leber however did not stay there long, for he considered the attacks on the temporal property of the Holy See to be sacrilegious....more
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