Michelet

(Jules), French historian, b. Paris, 21 Aug. 1798. Became a Profe or of History in 1821. Has written a History of France and of the French Revolution ; The Jesuits , with his friend Quinet, ’43; The Priest, Woman and the Family , ’44; The Sorcere , dealing with witchcraft in the Middle Ages, ’62; The Bible of Humanity , ’64. His lectures were interdicted by the Government of Louis Phillippe, and after the coup d’état he was deprived of his chair. All Michelet’s works glow with eloquence and imagination. He never forgot that he was a republican and Freethinker of the nineteenth century. Died at Hyères, 9 Feb. 1874.