The People

Name: The People
Author: Jules Michelet

by Jules Michelet

Romantic meditation on French national character and the common people's spirit

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Jules Michelet

Michelet was the greatest French narrative historian of the 19th century, writing a vast history of France animated by a Romantic vision of the people as the true subject of history. His rhapsodic style made him as much a poet as a historian.

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