Maurice Baumont

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Edmond Marie Maurice Baumont (born February 26, 1892 in Lunéville , † June 12, 1981 in Paris ) was a French historian with a focus on the history of Germany and France at the time of the Third Republic (1871 to 1940).

Life

He graduated from the École normal supérieure (Paris) , was a private lecturer in history and geography, became a professor at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Paris) and at the Geneva University Institute for International Studies . From 1919 to 1939 he was a member of the Secretariat of the League of Nations . In 1930 he took part in the 3e cours universitaire de Davos, along with numerous other French and German intellectuals. From 1939 to 1945 he was, together with Pierre Renouvin , director of the Commission de publication des documents relatifs aux origines de la guerre . In 1957 he was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (ASMP).

An ASMP prize, an avenue in Paris (Allée Maurice-Baumont) and the center historique de recherches de Maurice Baumont (center for historical research) in Luxeuil-les-Bains are named after him .

He was named Righteous Among the Nations .

His estate is kept in the Center des archives diplomatiques de La Courneuve (Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international).

Works

  • L'Allemagne: lendemains de guerre et de révolution (1922, Librairie Armand Colin, together with Marcel Berthelot; with a foreword by Ernest Lavisse, 292 pages)
  • La Grosse Industrie allemande et le charbon (1928)
  • La Grosse Industrie allemande et le lignite (1928)
  • L'Abdication de Guillaume II (1930)
    • English translation: The Fall of the Kaiser (1931)
  • La Révolution à Luxeuil et dans le district de Luxeuil (1930). Avec Henri Baumont.
  • L ' Affaire Eulenburg et les origines de la guerre mondiale (1933). Reprint: Edito-service, Geneva 1973.
  • L'Essor industriel et l'impérialisme colonial: 1878-1904 (1937)
  • Le Blé (1943)
  • La Faillite de la paix: 1918-1939 (1945)
  • Le Commerce depuis le milieu du XIXe siècle (1952). Volume V of the Histoire du commerce , edited by Jacques Lacour-Gayet .
  • Gloires et tragédies de la IIIe République (1956)
  • Histoire intérieure de la IIIe République depuis 1885 (1958)
  • Aux sources de l'Affaire: the affaire Dreyfus d'après les archives diplomatiques (1959). Reprint (title Au cœur de l'affaire Dreyfus ) Del Duca, Paris 1976.
  • La Grande Conjuration contre Hitler (1963)
  • Aristide Briand : Diplomat and Idealist (1966, 90 p.)
  • L'Europe de 1900 à 1914 (1967). With Raymond Isay and Henry Germain-Martin.
  • Les Origines de la deuxième guerre mondiale (1969)
  • L'Échiquier de Metz, Empire ou République, 1870 (1971)
  • La France de 1870 et le duc d'Aumale (1975)
  • Bazaine  : les secrets d'un maréchal, 1811-1888 (1978)

Web links

Commons : Maurice Baumont  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prix ​​Maurice Baumont
  2. ↑ Maurice Baumont on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
  3. ↑ www.ajpn.org: Les 385 Justes parmi les Nations de Paris
  4. ↑ www.diplomatie.gouv.fr
  5. ↑ Full text online at Archive.org
personal data
SURNAME Baumont, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneville
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1981
Place of death Paris