François Victor Alphonse Aulard (July 19, 1849 - October 23, 1928), was a French historian.of the Revolution and Napoleon. July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... A historian is a person who studies history. ...

He was born at Montbron in Charente. He obtained the degree of doctor of letters in 1877 with a Latin thesis on Gaius Asinius Pollio and a French one on Giacomo Leopardi (whose works he subsequently translated into French He made a study of parliamentary oratory during the French Revolution, and published two volumes on Les orateurs de la Constituante (1882) and on Les orateurs de la Legislative et de la Convention (1885). With these works, which were reprinted in 1905, he entered a new field, where he soon came an acknowledged master. Charente is a département in central France named after the Charente River. ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Gaius Asinius Pollio ( 76/75 BC-AD 5) was a Roman orator, poet and historian. ... Giacomo Leopardi Giacomo Leopardi, Count (June 29, 1798 – June 14, 1837) was a major Italian Romantic poet, often considered alongside Dante and Petrarch as one of Italys greatest poets and thinkers. ... Liberty Leading the People, a painting by Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 but which has come to be generally accepted as symbolic of French popular uprisings against the monarchy in general and the French Revolution in particular. ...

Applying to the study of the French Revolution the rules of historical criticism which had produced such rich results in the study of ancient and medieval history, he devoted himself to profound research in the archives, and to the publication of numerous important contributions to the political, administrative and moral history of that period.

Appointed professor of the history of the French Revolution at the Sorbonne in 1885, he formed the minds of students who in their turn did valuable work. To him we owe the Recueil des actes du Comité de salut public (27 vols. 1889-1923); La Société des Jacobins:Recueil de documents sur l'histoire des club des Jacobins de Paris (6 vols., 1889-1897); Paris pendant la reaction thermidorienne et sous le directoire: Recueil de documents pour l'histoire de l'esprit public a Paris (5 vols., 1898-1902), which was followed by a collection on Paris sous le consulat (2 vols., 1903-1904). The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The historic University of Paris (French: Université de Paris) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganized as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ... Jacobins can refer to the Jacobin Club, a political organization of the French Revolutionary Era ca. ...

For the Société de l'Histoire de la Revolution Française, which brought under his editorship the important periodical entitled La Revolution française. He produced the Registre des libérations du consulat provisoire (1894), and L'Etat de la France en l'an VIII et en l'an IX, with the reports of the effects (1897), besides editing various works or memoirs written by men of the Revolution, such as JC Bailleul, Chaumette, Fournier (called the American), Hérault de Séchelles, and Louvet de Couvrai. Pierre Gaspard Chaumette Pierre Gaspard Chamette (1763 - April 13, 1794) was a French revolutionary. ... Claude Fournier LHéritier (December 21, 1745 - 1825), was a French revolutionary, nicknamed lAmericain (the American). He was born at Auzon (Haute-Loire), the son of a poor weaver, and went to America to seek his fortune. ... Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles (September 20, 1759 - April 5, 1794), was a French politician of the revolutionary period. ... Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai (June 12, 1760 - August 25, 1797), was a French writer and politician. ...

These large collections of documents were a fraction of his output. He wrote a Histoire politique de la Revolution française (1901), and a number of articles which were collected in volumes under the title Etudes et leçons sur la Révolution française (9 vols., 1893-1924). In a volume entitled Taine, historien de la Révolution française (1908), Aulard attacked the method of the eminent philosopher in criticism that was severe, perhaps unjust, but certainly well-informed. This was, as it were, the "manifesto" of the new school of criticism applied to the political and social history of the Revolution (see Les Annales révolutionnaires, June 1908).

References

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. Please update as needed. Encyclopædia Britannica, the 11th edition The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is perhaps the most famous edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...

The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, in turn gives the following reference:

• Albert Mathiez, "M. Aulard, historien et professeur," in Revolution française (July 1908). See Georges Belloni, Aulard historien de la Revolution francaise (Paris, 1949).

Albert Mathiez (1874–1932) was a French historian, known for his work on the French Revolution. ...

External links

• Works by François-Alphonse Aulard at Project Gutenberg