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French historian (1871–1956)
Louis Madelin in 1927
Louis Emile Marie Madelin (8 May 1871 – 18 August 1956) was a French historian (specialising in the
French Revolution and
First French Empire ) and a
Republican Federation deputy for
Vosges from 1924 to 1928. He is buried at the
Cimetière de Grenelle .
Biography
Madelin was born in
Neufchâteau (Vosges) . Studying history at the
École des chartes , he became a member of the
École française de Rome then a professor at the faculté des lettres de Paris. He married in 1898, having four children by his first wife and on her death remarrying in 1909 to Marthe Clavery. During the First World War he was conscripted in 1914, becoming a sous-lieutenant and information officer before being demobbed in 1918 and receiving the
Croix de guerre .
Elected to the
Académie française in 1927 (replacing
Robert de Flers in seat 5), in Lorraine he became president of the Association des Amis du berceau de
Jeanne d'Arc on the death of
Lyautey - the Association organised mass demonstrations in Domrémy from 1937 to 1939 under the aegis of the
Compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc . In 1948 he participated in the creation of the
Comité pour la Libération du Maréchal Pétain .
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Works
1901 De conventu Bononiensis
1901 Fouché
1905 Croquis lorrains
1906
La Rome de Napoléon
1906 Le général
Lasalle
1911 La Révolution
1913 La France et Rome
1914
Danton
1916 La victoire de la Marne
1916 L'aveu, la
bataille de Verdun et l'opinion allemande
1917 La mêlée des Flandres, l'Yser et Ypres
1918 L'expansion française de la Syrie au Rhin
1919 Les heures merveilleuses d'Alsace et de Lorraine
1920 Verdun. La bataille de France.
1921 Le chemin de la victoire, 2 vol
1922 La France du
Directoire
1925 La colline de Chaillot
1925 Le
maréchal Foch
1926 La France de l'Empire
1928 Les hommes de la Révolution
1929 Le
Consulat de Bonaparte
1931 La
Fronde
1932 Le Consulat et l'Empire, 2 vol
1933 Les grandes étapes de l'Histoire de France
1935 Lettres inédites de
Napoléon à l'impératrice
Marie-Louise , écrites de 1810 à 1814. Napoléon. La Contre-Révolution sous la Révolution
1936 Le crépuscule de la monarchie
1937
François Ier , le souverain politique
1937-1953 Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, 16 vol.
1944
Talleyrand
1945 Édition des Mémoires de Fouché.
References
His grave in Grenelle Cemetery (Paris).
External links
International National Academics People Other