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Jules Michelet

Also known as Zhiul Mishle

French historian; popularized the historical concept of the Renaissance

AI overview

Jules Michelet was a French historian who played a key role in shaping how people understand the Renaissance, helping to popularize this concept as a major period in European history. His work mattered because he made history accessible and engaging to ordinary readers, influencing how generations of people have thought about the past.

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Vinony's link graph records 625 inbound references to Jules Michelet, and connects out to Romanticism, history of France and Félicité de La Mennais.

It sits within the topics 1798 births, 1874 deaths and 19th-century French historians.

Vinony links it to 49 Wikipedia language editions.

Person · Open Library

Works: 23

Top works

History of France: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
Introduction à l'histoire universelle: suivie du discours d'ouverture, prononcé en 1834 à la ...
Compendio de la historia moderna
Guerres de religion
Historical View of the French Revolution: From Its Earliest Indications to the Flight of the ..

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 11
Total plays: 331

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People
· 2010 · cited 9,374x
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The Dorsoventral Regulatory Gene Cassette spätzle/Toll/cactus Controls the Potent Antifungal Response in Drosophila Adults
· 1996 · cited 3,054x
The Host Defense of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
· 2007 · cited 3,030x
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,820x

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Quotes

“Out of India, [[French Revolution|until [17]89]] there fell a torrent of light—the river of Right and Reason.”
“Michelet held that the Vedas "were undoubtedly the first monument of the world" and that from India emanated "a torrent of light and the flow of reason and Right". He proclaimed that "the migrations of mankind follow the route of the sun from East to West along the sun's course. . . . At its starting point, man arose in India, the birthplace of races and of religions, the womb of the world".”
“With the world began a war that will only end with the world, and not before: that of man against nature, mind against matter, freedom against fate. History is nothing but the story of this endless struggle.”
“The intimate fusion of races is the identity of our nation, its personality.”
“The last people in the world in whom the personality would consent to be absorbed into pantheism is the French.”
“France is the daughter of freedom. In human progress, the essential part, the main force, is called man. Man is his own Prometheus.”

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Wikidata facts

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Commons category: Jules Michelet
date of birth: 1798-08-22
date of death: 1874-02-09
Commons gallery: Jules Michelet
name in native language: Jules Michelet
Commons Creator page: Jules Michelet
P8168: Lerici
start of work period: 1821-01-01
end of work period: 1874-01-01

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Jules Michelet, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Jules Michelet ( French: [ʒyl miʃlɛ]; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian and writer, best known for his multi-volume work Histoire de France (History of France), which chronicles the history of France from its earliest origins to the French Revolution. Michelet was influenced by Giambattista Vico, particularly by his emphasis on the role of ordinary people and their customs in shaping historical narratives, which contrasted with the traditional focus on political and military elites. Michelet also drew inspiration from Vico's concept of the corsi e ricorsi—the cyclical nature of history—in which societies rise and fall in a recurring pattern.

In Histoire de France, Michelet coined the term ''Renaissance'' (French for "rebirth") to describe a cultural movement in Europe that marked a clear departure from the Middle Ages. Although the term was initially used by the Italian art historian Giorgio Vasari in 1550 to describe the revival of classical art beginning with Giotto, Michelet was the first historian to apply the French equivalent systematically to a broader historical era. His use of the term "Renaissance'' established the modern interpretation of this period as a time of renewed humanism, artistic flourishing, and intellectual transformation in "post-medieval" Europe.

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