Pierre de La Gorce

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Pierre de La Gorce

Pierre de La Gorce (born June 29, 1846 in Vannes , † January 2, 1934 ) was a French historian .

Life

La Gorces father was a soldier of the Restoration and the July Monarchy . Since her mother died early, La Groce grew up with an aunt in Maubeuge . He studied at a college in Douai , but then turned on the advice of his father and began studying law, which he completed in 1870. He was first deputy judge and then substitute judge and worked in Rocroi , Montreuil , Béthune and Saint-Omer . In 1880 he resigned because, as a staunch Catholic, he did not want to take part in the implementation of the decrees of the government of Jules Ferry , which provided for a reduction in the influence of religious orders on education and society. From then on he devoted himself entirely to the history of France and wrote numerous important works.

Pierre de la Gorce was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1907 and to the Académie française in 1914 .

Honors

  • Knight of the Legion of Honor
  • A street is named after him in his birthplace, Vannes.

Works

  • Histoire de la Seconde République française 2 volumes, Plon, Paris, 1886
  • Histoire du Second Empire . 7 volumes, Plon, Paris, 1894–1906 ( online )
  • Histoire religieuse de la Révolution française . 5 volumes, Plon-Nourrit, Paris, 1909–23 ( online )
  • À travers la France chrétienne, études et portraits . Bloud et Gay, Paris, 1920
  • La restoration: Louis XVIII . Plon-Nourrit et Cie, Paris, 1926
  • La Restauration: Charles X . Plon, Paris, 1928
  • Louis-Philippe (1830-1848) . Plon, Paris, 1931
  • Napoléon III et sa politique . Plon, Paris, 1933
  • Martyrs et Apostats sous la Terreur (1793-1794) . Plon, Paris, 1934
  • Les massacres de pretres sous la Revolution, 1792−1793 . Flammarion, Paris, 1934
  • La conquête de l'Algérie . Flammarion, Paris, 1934
  • Au temps you Second Empire . Plon, Paris, 1935 (published posthumously)

literature

  • Stuart Campbell: The Second Empire revisited. A Study in French historiography . Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 1978 (English)
  • The triple elections de l'Académie française . Le Miroir , February 22, 1914
  • Charles Léon: Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Pierre de La Gorce (1846-1934) . Académie des sciences morales et politiques, Paris, 1934.
  • Jean-Francis Gervais: Manichéisme d'un historien: Pierre de la Gorce et les nations de son temps . In: Revue d'histoire diplomatique , July – December 1974, p. 332
  • Jean-Francis Gervais: Une théorie du changement en histoire: Pierre de la Gorce . In: Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine , January – March 1977, pp. 96–109
  • Agnès de la Gorce: Une vocation d'historien: Pierre de La Gorce , Plon, Paris, 1948

Web links

Commons : Pierre de La Gorce  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rue Pierre de La Gorce, Vannes , Région Bretagne
personal data
SURNAME La Gorce, Pierre de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer, judge and historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Vannes
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1934