Louis Emile Marie Madelin (8 May 1871 – 18 August 1956) was a French historian (specialising in the

French Revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considere ...

and

First French Empire The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire (; Latin: ) after 1809, also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Eu ...

) and a

Republican Federation The Republican Federation (french: Fédération républicaine, FR) was the largest conservative party during the French Third Republic, gathering together the progressive Orléanists rallied to the Republic. Founded in November 1903, the party ...

deputy for

Vosges The Vosges ( , ; german: Vogesen ; Franconian and gsw, Vogese) are a range of low mountains in Eastern France, near its border with Germany. Together with the Palatine Forest to the north on the German side of the border, they form a single ...

from 1924 to 1928. He is buried at the Cimetière de Grenelle.

Biography

Madelin was born in Neufchâteau (Vosges). Studying history at the

École des chartes École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Sav ...

, he became a member of the

École française de Rome The École française de Rome (EFR) is a French research institute for history, archaeology, and the social sciences; overseen by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a division of the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et d ...

then a professor at the faculté des lettres de Paris. He married in 1898, having four children by his first wife and on her death remarrying in 1909 to Marthe Clavery. During the First World War he was conscripted in 1914, becoming a sous-lieutenant and information officer before being demobbed in 1918 and receiving the

Croix de guerre The ''Croix de Guerre'' (, ''Cross of War'') is a military decoration of France. It was first created in 1915 and consists of a square-cross medal on two crossed swords, hanging from a ribbon with various degree pins. The decoration was first awa ...

. Elected to the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

in 1927 (replacing

Robert de Flers Robert Pellevé de La Motte-Ango, marquis de Flers (25 November 1872, Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados – 30 July 1927, Vittel) was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist.Pierre Barillet, ''Les Seigneurs du rire: Flers – Caillavet – ...

in seat 5), in Lorraine he became president of the Association des Amis du berceau de

Jeanne d'Arc Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= �an daʁk} ; 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronati ...

on the death of Lyautey - the Association organised mass demonstrations in Domrémy from 1937 to 1939 under the aegis of the

Compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc The ''Compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc'' (Companions of Joan of Arc) was an association honouring Saint Joan of Arc. From 1937 to 1939, it organised mass patriotic and religious demonstrations at Domrémy in her honour. Demonstrations 9 May 1937 This ...

. In 1948 he participated in the creation of the Comité pour la Libération du Maréchal Pétain.

Jacques Leclercq Jacques Leclercq (1891 in Brussels – 1971 in Beaufays) was a Belgian Roman Catholic theologian and priest. Life He received a degree in law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université libre de Bruxelles and one in philosophy from t ...

, ''Dictionnaire de la mouvance droitiste et nationale de 1945 à nos jours'', L'Harmattan, Paris, 2008 , p.136

Works

* 1901 De conventu Bononiensis * 1901 Fouché * 1905 Croquis lorrains * 1906 La Rome de Napoléon * 1906 Le général Lasalle * 1911 La Révolution * 1913 La France et Rome * 1914

Danton Georges Jacques Danton (; 26 October 1759 – 5 April 1794) was a French lawyer and a leading figure in the French Revolution. He became a deputy to the Paris Commune, presided in the Cordeliers district, and visited the Jacobin club. In August ...

* 1916 La victoire de la Marne * 1916 L'aveu, la bataille de Verdun et l'opinion allemande * 1917 La mêlée des Flandres, l'Yser et Ypres * 1918 L'expansion française de la Syrie au Rhin * 1919 Les heures merveilleuses d'Alsace et de Lorraine * 1920 Verdun. La bataille de France. * 1921 Le chemin de la victoire, 2 vol * 1922 La France du

Directoire The Directory (also called Directorate, ) was the governing five-member committee in the French First Republic from 2 November 1795 until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by ...

* 1925 La colline de Chaillot * 1925 Le maréchal Foch * 1926 La France de l'Empire * 1928 Les hommes de la Révolution * 1929 Le

Consulat The Consulate (french: Le Consulat) was the top-level Government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire on 10 November 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire on 18 May 1804. By extension, the term ''The Co ...

de Bonaparte * 1931 La

Fronde The Fronde () was a series of civil wars in France between 1648 and 1653, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635. King Louis XIV confronted the combined opposition of the princes, the nobility, the law cour ...

* 1932 Le Consulat et l'Empire, 2 vol * 1933 Les grandes étapes de l'Histoire de France * 1935 Lettres inédites de

Napoléon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

à l'impératrice Marie-Louise, écrites de 1810 à 1814. Napoléon. La Contre-Révolution sous la Révolution * 1936 Le crépuscule de la monarchie * 1937 François Ier, le souverain politique * 1937-1953 Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, 16 vol. * 1944 Talleyrand * 1945 Édition des Mémoires de Fouché.

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