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François Guizot
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150th anniversary of the death of François Guizot 2024
François Guizot symposium 2008
François Guizot symposium 1993
François Guizot Conference 1987
François Guizot symposium 1974
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4 October 1787: Born in Nîmes. 1799-1805: Stays in Geneva. 1812: Marries Pauline de Meulan. Professor of modern history at the Faculty of Letters in Paris. 1814-1820: Senior civil servant during the liberal phase of the Restoration. 1820-1829: History course at the Sorbonne (suspended in 1822, resumed in 1828), activities as historian and essayist. 1829-1832: Publication in six volumes of the modern history course: Histoire de la civilisation en Europe. History of civilisation in France. January 1830-February 1848: Deputy for Calvados. 3 August-2 November 1830: Minister of the Interior. October 1832-April 1837: Minister of Public Instruction. March 1833: death of his second wife Elisa Dillon, married in 1828. 1836: elected to the Académie française. Acquires Val-Richer, near Lisieux. February-October 1840: Ambassador to London. October 1840-February 1848: Minister of Foreign Affairs. August 1841-February 1848: President of the General Council of Calvados. 19 September 1847: President of the Council. March 1848-July 1849: exiled to London with his three children. 1856: Publication of the sixth and final volume of the History of the Revolution in England, begun in 1826. January 1857: Death of the Princess de Lieven, after a twenty-year affair. 1857-1868: publication of the eight volumes of Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de mon temps. January 1861: memorable reception...
Guizot and Henriette :
education, gender and protestantism
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François Guizot, artisan de l'histoire« television programme.
The Guizot awards
François Guizot-Institut de France Prize
Prix Guizot-Institut de France 2024
Prix Guizot-Institut de France 2022
Prix Guizot-Institut de France 2020
Prix Guizot-Institut de France 2018
Prix Guizot-Institut de France 2016
Prix Guizot-Institut de France 2014
Guizot Prize awarded by the Calvados General Council
François Guizot Prize from the Académie Française
The Prix Guizot was created in 1993 to commemorate François Guizot, Member of Parliament for Calvados from 1830 to 1848, on the joint initiative of Madame d'Ornano, President of the Calvados General Council, the great historian François Furet, later a member of the Académie française, and the Association François Guizot-Val-Richer, which brings together descendants of the statesman. The prize is awarded every two years for a work of history, social studies or political analysis that is accessible to a wide readership. On the occasion of its creation, François Furet declared that «this prize is at the confluence of several loyalties: the loyalty of the admirable family [...] the loyalty that Normandy shows to its great men [...] the loyalty of the community of French historians and intellectuals who, over the last fifteen years, have been rediscovering Guizot». (Le Val-Richer, 24 September 1993). Download the speech by François Furet, President of the Jury. ------------------- The Calvados Guizot Prize is not the first of its kind. In December 1871, the biennial grand prize of the Institute, endowed with twenty thousand francs, the first winner of which had been Adolphe Thiers in 1861, was awarded to Guizot on the initiative of the Académie française. Guizot wrote to thank the prizewinner, saying: «Letters have...
The homelands of François Guizot: Nîmes and Geneva.