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Jules Michelet

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Jules Michelet


Born
in Paris, France
August 21, 1798

Died
February 09, 1874

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Genre
History, Politics


His father was a master printer, not very prosperous, and Jules assisted him in the actual work of the press. A place was offered him in the imperial printing office, but his father was able to send him to the famous Collège or Lycée Charlemagne, where he distinguished himself. He passed the university examination in 1821, and was soon appointed to a professorship of history in the Collège Rollin.

Soon after this, in 1824, he married. This was one of the most favourable periods ever for scholars and men of letters in France, and Michelet had powerful patrons in Abel-François Villemain and Victor Cousin, among others. Although he was an ardent politician (having from his childhood embraced republicanism and a peculiar variety of romantic free ...more

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“He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.”
― Jules Michelet
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“Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.”
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“Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions”
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