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Michelet

American

[meesh^uh-ley] / miʃəˈleɪ /

noun

Jules 1798–1874, French historian.

Michelet British

/ miʃəle /

noun

Jules (ʒyl). 1798–1874, French historian, noted esp for his Histoire de France (17 vols, 1833–67)

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The influential historian Jules Michelet, a Huguenot, famously termed Catherine "the maggot from Italy's tomb."

From Salon • Sep. 26, 2022

"Bussing has become essential because it encourages integration," says Bernard Vigouroux, headmaster of the Michelet school in the city centre which has taken in around 70 children from the suburbs.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2021

“Biography begins in the mysteries of temperament, lives in narrative, but aims beyond it, as the historian Jules Michelet understood, to resurrection,” Mr. Richardson wrote in “William James.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2020

The French historian Jules Michelet said that the nation is a daily plebiscite.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2019

Borrowing from his beloved Michelet, he writes: “I love her, her and no other.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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