Franois Victor Alphonse Aulard

Franois Victor Alphonse Aulard (1849-1928)

Franois Victor Alphonse Aulard (19 July 1849 23 October 1928) was a French historian of the French Revolution and Napoleon. He was born at Montbron in Charente. He entered the cole Normale Suprieure in 1867 and obtained the degree of doctor of letters in 1877 with a Latin thesis on Gaius Asinius Pollio and a French one on Giacomo Leopardi (whose works he subsequently translated into French He made a study of parliamentary oratory during the French Revolution, and published two volumes on Les orateurs de la Constituante and on Les orateurs de la Legislative et de la Convention. With these works, which were reprinted in 1905, he entered a new field, where he soon came an acknowledged master. Applying to the study of the French Revolution the rules of historical criticism which had produced such rich results in the study of ancient and medieval history, he devoted himself to profound research in the archives, and to the publication of numerous important contributions to the political, administrative and moral history of that period. Appointed professor of the history of the French Revolution at the Sorbonne in 1885, he formed the minds of students who in their turn did valuable work. To him we owe the Recueil des actes du Comit de salut public; La Socit des Jacobins:Recueil de documents sur l'histoire des club des Jacobins de Paris; Paris pendant la reaction thermidorienne et sous le directoire: Recueil de documents pour l'histoire de l'esprit public a Paris, which was followed by a collection on Paris sous le consulat. For the Socit de l'Histoire de la Revolution Franaise, which brought under his editorship the important periodical entitled La Revolution franaise. He produced the Registre des librations du consulat provisoire, and L'Etat de la France en l'an VIII et en l'an IX, with the reports of the effects, besides editing various works or memoirs written by men of the Revolution, such as JC Bailleul, Chaumette, Fournier, Hrault de Schelles, and Louvet de Couvrai. These large collections of documents were a fraction of his output. He wrote a Histoire politique de la Revolution franaise, and a number of articles which were collected in volumes under the title Etudes et leons sur la Rvolution franaise. In a volume entitled Taine, historien de la Rvolution franaise, Aulard attacked the method of the eminent philosopher in criticism that was severe, perhaps unjust, but certainly well-informed. This was, as it were, the "manifesto" of the new school of criticism applied to the political and social history of the Revolution.

Alphonse Aulard's Books:

[Les Grands Orateurs De La Rvolution]

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