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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics between the July Revolution and the Revolution of 1848.
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culture · French historian, orator and statesman (1787–1874) · politician · diplomat · historian · translator · writer · literary critic · also François Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, François-Pierre-Guillaume Guizot, Guizot
Born 4 October 1787 · Died 12 September 1874 · Q157324
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Le Monde.fr: Pedro Almodovar, François Guizot, Azar Nafisi, Franck Pavloff… : les brèves critiques du « Monde des livres »
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Died 1874-09-12.
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In his Histoire parlementaire de la France (5 vols
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Guizot published his Histoire de la république d'Angleterre et de Cromwell (2 vols
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Guizot published two more volumes on the English revolution -- Pourquoi la Révolution d'Angleterre a-t-elle reussi
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Career landmark: head of government of France (1847–1848).
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Changed these intimate relations; and the return of Palmerston to the foreign office led Guizot to believe that he was again exposed to the passionate rivalry of the British cabinet
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1846–1848).
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The opposition accused the government of buying the votes of the electorate
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British and French troops fought side by side for the first time in the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1842–1846).
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Was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1855
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1840).
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Was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society
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Foreign Minister 1840–1847, and finally Prime Minister of France from 19 September 1847 to 23 February 1848
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By Louis-Mathieu Molé, who had formed an intermediate government
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1839–1842).
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1837–1839).
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Was selected as a member of the Académie Française, the highest literary distinction of the country
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Career landmark: seat 40 of the Académie française (1836–1874).
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1834–1837).
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Leaving two daughters, Henriette (1829–1908), a co-author with her father and prolific writer herself, and Pauline (1831–1874) and a son, Guillaume (1833–1892), who attained some reputation as a scholar and writer
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1831–1834).
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Casimir Périer formed a more vigorous and compact administration, terminated in May 1832 by his death; the summer of that year was marked by a formidable republican rising in Paris, and it was not until 11 October 1832 t
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1830–1831).
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“The History of the Origins of Representative Government in Europe”
To his professor's chair and to the council of state
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Guizot married Elisa Dillon, niece of his first wife, and also an author
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1828–1830).
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Published his lectures on representative government (Histoire des origines du gouvernement représentatif, 1821–1822, 2 vols
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When the reaction was at its height after the murder of the Duc de Berry, and the fall of the ministry of the duc Decazes, Guizot was deprived of his offices, and in 1822 even his course of lectures were interdicted
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Was one of the founders of the Liberal journal Le Courrier français
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Was appointed general director of communes and departments in the ministry of the interior, but lost his office with the fall of Decazes in February 1820
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Was at once selected, on the recommendation of Royer-Collard, to serve the government of King Louis XVIII, in the capacity of secretary-general of the ministry of the interior, under the abbé de Montesquiou
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Mademoiselle de Meulan married Guizot
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Arrived in Paris and he entered at the age eighteen as tutor into the family of M
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Born 1787-10-04.
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