Michelet

JULES, (mesh-la',) a brilliant French historian, B. in Paris, 1798, in 1832 s. M. Guizot as prof. of history at the Sorbonne, and in 1838 was appointed to the chair of history and moral philosophy in the College de France, which he lost in 1852 through refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the Empire after the coup-d'état. M.'s principal works are, a History of the French Revolution (7 vols., 1847-53), and a History of France (14 vols., 1833-62). D. 1874. [s. 598]