Jules michelet biography

  "The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth."
Jules Michelet

  Jules Michelet, who went on in life to become a famous French historian, was born in Paris in August 1798 into a family which had Huguenot traditions and where his father was precariously self-employed as a printer.

As he grew to manhood Michelet was offered employment in the imperial printing office but his father, who had hopes for his evidently talented son, decided to keep him in school despite the relative poverty of his circumstances.

The son fulfilled some of his father's expectations - he progressed from school to higher studies, in history.

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In 1821 he was appointed as a teacher of history. He married in 1824.

  Between 1825 and 1827 Michelet produced a number of sketches, chronological tables, etc., of modern history. His Introduction à l'histoire universelle, p