Adolphe-Frédéric Michel

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Adolphe-Frédéric Michel, portrait by Pierre Petit from 1884

Adolphe-Frédéric Michel (born October 15, 1839 in Lourmarin , Département Vaucluse , † September 17, 1891 in Paris ) was a French writer and publicist .

His parents were the pharmacist Denis Frédéric Michel and Jeanne Julie Sambuc.

In 1859, Adolphe-Frédéric Michel began in Geneva initially humanities to study, then theology . With an official certificate of good repute he went to Strasbourg in 1864 , where he graduated as cand. Theol. and then bac. theol. completed. Then Adolphe-Frédéric Michel worked as a journalist in Paris for various newspapers. He worked for Le Protestant libéral (Der Liberale Protestant) and L'Avenir national (The National Future), which appeared in the years 1865 to 1871 and was founded by the journalist and politician Alphonse Peyrat (1812-1890) was. The paper was republican with slightly socialist tendencies and anti-clerical. Other newspapers that Michel worked for were La Cloche (The Bell) and Siècle (Century), both of which were founded around 1870.

He should not be confused with François Adolphe Michel (* 1799).

Works

  • L'Empire et la presse, satire politique ; 1859?
  • Université de France. Faculté de théologie protestante de Strasbourg. Samuel Vincent, son temps et ses opinions, thèse présentée ; 1864
  • Les Rayonnements ; 1866
  • La Troisième République française: histoire contemporaine ; 1873 ( digitized version )
  • Qui a voulu la guerre de 1870? ; 1874
  • Histoire contemporaine. La Troisième République française ; 1875
  • Les Jésuites ; 1879
  • Philippe de Girard, sa vie et ses inventions ; 1882
  • Le Roman d'un vieux garçon ; 1883
  • Petite histoire de la famille d'Orléans ; 1885
  • Les Finances de la République, ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on ne dit pas ; 1885

literature

  • Suzanne Stelling-Michaud: “Le livre du Recteur de l'Académie de Genève (1559-1878) notices biographique des étudiants H – M”, Volume IV, Geneva 1975, p. 535 .

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Remarks

  1. Jacques-Louis-Samuel Vincent (1787-1837) had settled near Uzès towards the end of his short life.