Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne

French historian born in Paris on 28 October 1820, of an old Lyon family

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1820

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 06-Aug-1882

Profession: historian

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne

  • Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne (28 October 1820 – 6 August 1882) was a French historian born in Paris on 28 October 1820, of an old Lyon family.
  • His reputation rests on his authoritative major work, Histoire de France, published in nine volumes (1865–79).Educated at the École des Chartes in Paris, he became professor in the faculty of letters at Grenoble in 1844, and in 1849 at Lyon, where he remained nearly thirty years.
  • He died at Lucenay-lès-Aix (Nièvre département).His works comprise: Histoire de l'administration en France depuis Philippe-Auguste (2 vols., 1848); Histoire des classes agricoles en France depuis Saint Louis jusqu'à Louis XVI (2 vols., 1853 and 1858), now quite obsolete; and a Histoire de France (8 vols., 1865-1873), completed by a Histoire de la Restauration (2 vols., 1879), a good summary of the work of Louis, baron de Viel-Castel, and by a Histoire du Gouvernement de Juillet, a dry enumeration of dates and facts.
  • Before the publication of Lavisse's great work, Dareste's general history of France was the best of its kind; it surpassed in accuracy the work of Henri Martin, especially in the ancient periods, just as Martin's in its turn was an improvement upon that of Sismondi.

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