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Michelet

[meeshuh-ley]

noun

  1. Jules 1798–1874, French historian.



Michelet

/ miʃəle /

noun

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

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“Beware, La Gioconda is a dangerous picture,” writes the French historian Jules Michelet.

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Hours before kick-off in Marseille they came piling out of Metro Rond Du Prado and headed slowly down the Boulevard Michelet to meet their own folk, a giant mass of Puma supporters bedecked in blue and white.

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

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Throughout 132 years of French colonisation the streets were respectively known as rue d'Isly, Boulevard Michelet and rue Sadi Carnot.

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Therefore the three central streets of Algiers took on the names of revolutionaries: Didouche Mourad replaced Michelet, rue D'Isly became Larbi Ben M'Hidi and Sadi Carnot conceded its place to the young heroine Hassiba Ben Bouali.

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