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Michelet

American  
[meeshuh-lay] / miʃəˈleɪ /

noun

  1. Jules 1798–1874, French historian.


Michelet British  
/ miʃəle /

noun

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

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Adrien Michelet, 40, a mechanic, stands at the site of his workshop in Le Porg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2022

Geralt meets Djikstra and Philippa Eilhart there; he's also ambushed by the Michelet Brothers in a scene that is very clearly meant to show that humans can be just as dangerous to him as monsters.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2022

“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

He tells Theo to read a book he just read, and loves, Lamour by Jules Michelet.

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

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