1. Joseph Pérez (1931)

French Historian

Twentieth-century French author of a number of books on Spanish history and Latin American independence movements. He also founded La Maison des Plays Iberiques, a Spanish cultural center in France.

2. Claude Mossé (1925)

French Historian

Claude Mossé is a French historian specialising in the history of Ancient Greece.

3. Alain Corbin (1936)

French Historian

Alain Corbin is a French historian specialist of the 19th century in France. Trained in the Annales School Corbin's work has moved away from the large-scale collective structures studied by...

4. François Guizot (1787)

French Historian

çois Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian orator and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848 a conservative liberal who opposed...

5. Agathon Jean François Fain (1778)

French Historian

Agathon Jean François Fain was a French historian. He was born in Paris France. Having gained admittance to the offices of the Directory he became head of a département. Under...

6. Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry (1797)

French Historian

Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry French journalist and historian was the younger brother of Augustin.

7. Rémi Mathis (1982)

French Historian

Rémi Mathis FRSA is a French historian curator and free-culture advocate.

8. Albert Mathiez (1874)

French Historian

Albert Mathiez was a French historian known for his Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution. Mathiez emphasized class conflict. He argued that 1789 pitted the bourgeoisie against the aristocracy and...

9. Désiré Nisard (1806)

French Historian

Jean Marie Napoléon Désiré Nisard was a French author and literary critic. He was born at Châtillon-sur-Seine. In 1826 he joined the staff of the Journal des Débats but subsequently...

10. Victor Duruy (1811)

French Historian

Jean Victor Duruy was a French historian and statesman. Duruy was born in Paris the son of a factory worker and at first intended for his father's trade. Having passed...

11. Pierre Rosanvallon (Unknow)

French Historian

Pierre Rosanvallon is a French intellectual and historian named professor at the Collège de France in 2001. He holds there the chair in the modern and contemporary history of the...

12. Henry Rousso (1954)

French Historian

Henry Rousso is a contemporary French historian specializing in World War II France. He studied at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud the Sorbonne and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de...

13. Benjamin Stora (1950)

French Historian

Benjamin Stora is a French historian expert on North Africa who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family...

14. Bon-Joseph Dacier (1742)

French Historian

Bon Joseph Dacier was a French historian philologist and translator from ancient Greek. He became a Chevalier de l'Empire then Baron de l'Empire. He also served as curator of the...

15. Alfred Nicolas Rambaud (1842)

French Historian

Alfred Nicolas Rambaud was a French historian.

16. Jean Garnier (1612)

French Historian

Jean Garnier was a French Jesuit church historian patristic scholar and moral theologian.

17. Jean-Noël Jeanneney (1942)

French Historian

Jean-Noël Jeanneney is a French historian and politician born on 2 April 1942 in Grenoble. He is the son of Jean-Marcel Jeanneney and the grandson of Jules Jeanneney both important...

18. J B Prashant More (1955)

French Historian

Dr. J B Prashant More is a Tamil born Historian of French Nationality. He is also an author and a teacher. His area of research is mostly the South Indian...

19. Sébastien Fath (1968)

French Historian

Sebastien Fath is a French professional historian and a Ph. D at the Sorbonne University. Also trained in Sociology he is the main French specialist in the study of Evangelical...

20. Henri Ternaux-Compans (Unknow)

French Historian

Henri Ternaux-Compans was a French historian.

21. Yves Durand (academic) (Unknow)

French Historian

Yves Durand was a French academic professor of modern history at the Sorbonne.

22. Patrick Weil (Unknow)

French Historian

Patrick Weil is a French historian and political scientist. He is a research fellow at CNRS at the Centre for the social history of the 20th century at the University...

23. Dominique Varry (1956)

French Historian

Dominique Varry is a French historian of books and professor at École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques part of the University of Lyon.

24. Henri Fréville (1905)

French Historian

Henri Fréville was a French history professor resistor writer and politician.

25. Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison (1960)

French Historian

Olivier LeCour Grandmaison is a French historian and author whose work chiefly centres on colonialism.

26. Louis Madelin (1871)

French Historian

Louis Emile Marie Madelin was a French historian and a Republican Federation deputy for Vosges from 1924 to 1928. He is buried at the Cimetière de Grenelle.

27. Jean-Lambert Tallien (1767)

French Historian

Jean-Lambert Tallien was a French political figure of the revolutionary period.

28. Napoléon Peyrat (1809)

French Historian

Napoléon Peyrat was a French author and historian from Les Bordes-sur-Arize. Peyrat was the author of Histoire des pasteurs du Désert: depuis la révocation de l'édit de Nantes jusqu'à la...

29. Loeiz Herrieu (1879)

French Historian

Loeiz Herrieu or Louis Henrio was a Breton historian who wrote in his native language of Breton vannetais. The son of a farmer he was nicknamed Er Barh Labourér.

30. Charles-Jean-François Hénault (1685)

French Historian

Charles-Jean-François Hénault was a French writer and historian.

31. Jean de Nostredame (Unknow)

French Historian

Jean de Nostredame was a Provençal historian and writer. He was the younger brother of Michel de Nostredame. He was baptised at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence on 19 February 1522. He followed the...

32. Antoine Henri de Bérault-Bercastel (Unknow)

French Historian

Antoine Henri de Bérault-Bercastel was a French priest and Catholic historian.

33. Léon Guérin (Unknow)

French Historian

Léon Guérin was a French author poet and naval historian.

34. Léon Halévy (1802)

French Historian

Léon Halévy was a French civil servant historian and dramatist. Born to a Jewish family in Paris Léon was the son of the writer and chazzan Élie Halévy and the...

35. Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553)

French Historian

Jacques Auguste de Thou was a French historian book collector and president of the Parlement de Paris.

36. Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540)

French Historian

Joseph Justus Scaliger was a Dutch religious leader and scholar known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and ancient Roman history to include Persian Babylonian Jewish and...

37. Élie Vinet (Unknow)

French Historian

Élie Vinet was a French Renaissance humanist known as a classical scholar translator and antiquary.

38. Scipion Dupleix (1569)

French Historian

Scipion Dupleix lord of Clarens was a French historian. Dupleix came to Paris in 1605 in Queen Margaret of Valois' retinue who appointed him as her hotel's maitre de requêtes....

39. Jean Papire Masson (1544)

French Historian

Jean Papire Masson Latin: Papirius was a French humanist historian known also as a geographer biographer literary critic and jurist.

40. Émile Bréhier (1876)

French Historian

Émile Bréhier was a French philosopher. His interest was in classical philosophy and the history of philosophy. He wrote a Histoire de la Philosophie translated into English in seven volumes....

41. Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914)

French Historian

Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French historian and anthropologist specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth tragedy and society which would itself...

42. Hippolyte Taine (1828)

French Historian

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners...

43. Jules Michelet (1798)

French Historian

Jules Michelet was a French historian.

44. Auguste Laugel (1830)

French Historian

Antoine-Auguste Laugel was a French historian and engineer born in Strasbourg. He received his education at the École polytechnique in Paris and for a period of time was secretary and...

45. Rémi Brague (1947)

French Historian

Rémi Brague is a French historian of philosophy specializing in the Arabic Jewish and Christian thought of the Middle Ages. He is professor emeritus of Arabic and religious philosophy at...

46. Catherine Virlouvet (1956)

French Historian

Catherine Virlouvet is a famous French historian, who was born on February 13, 1956 in France. Catherine Virlouvet (born 13 February 1956) is a French historian, a professor of economic...

47. Mathieu da Vinha (1976)

French Historian

Mathieu da Vinha is a famous French historian, who was born on March 15, 1976 in France. According to Astrologers, Mathieu da Vinha's zodiac sign is Pisces.
Mathieu da Vinha (born...

48. Daniel Moulinet (1957)

French Historian

Daniel Moulinet is a famous French historian, who was born on January 9, 1957 in France. Daniel Moulinet (born 9 January 1957) is a French priest and historian, professor of...