Auguste Aimé Boullée
Auguste Aimé Boullée (born November 4, 1795 in Bourg-en-Bresse , Département Ain , † June 2, 1870 in Passy near Paris ) was a French historian .
life and work
Auguste Aimé Boullée studied law and then devoted himself to civil service. In 1821 he received the highest judicial post in his hometown and two years later was appointed royal procurator in Bergerac , then in 1826 appointed to Mâcon . As a result of the change of government on the occasion of the July Revolution of 1830 , he said goodbye and from then on devoted himself to historical studies in Lyon , since 1854 in Passy. He died on June 2, 1870 at the age of 74 in Passy near Paris.
Boullée's writings are valued for their thoroughness. In addition to smaller treatises, numerous articles in the Biographie universelle , Encyclopédie des gens du monde , in the Dictionnaire de la conversation, etc., he wrote a series of biographical notes, which he later published in his own work ( Biographies contemporaines , 2 vols., 1863) The main biographies are those of General Lafayette , Counts Villèle and Peyronnet , Prince Polignac , Dupont de Nemours and Marshals Victor and Valée . He also wrote the following works:
- Des anciens royalistes et du gouvernement , Lyon 1830
- Vie de Démosthène , Paris 1834; 2nd corrected and enlarged edition Histoire de Démosthène , Paris 1868
- Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages du chancelier d'Aguesseau , Lyon 1835; 2nd edition Paris 1848
- Histoire de la France pendant la dernière année de la Restauration , 2 parts, Paris 1839
- Histoire complète des États-généraux et autres assemblées représentatives de la France 1302-1626 , 2 parts, Paris 1845
- Études biographiques sur Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, dernier roi des Français , Paris 1849
- Étude sur Clarisse Harlowe , Metz 1853
- Essai sur la vie et les ouvrages de J.-E. Portalis, ministre des cultes , Paris 1859
literature
- Auguste Aimé Boullée . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 3, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 277.
Web links
- Literature by and about Auguste Aimé Boullée in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boullée, Auguste Aimé |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bourg-en-Bresse , Ain department |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 1870 |
| Place of death | Passy near Paris |