Jacques Léon Godechot (3 January 1907 – 24 August 1989) was a French

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of the French Revolution and a pioneer of Atlantic history. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Letters and human sciences at the

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from 1961 to 1971. Godechot was born in 1907 in Lunéville. He was appointed to the Faculty of Letters of Toulouse in 1945 and taught there until 1980. As a frequent and varied contributor to the ''Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française'', he acted as "a mediator, an intermediary between readers of the journal and Anglo-Saxon and Italian historiography of the Revolution". His emphasis on the international dimension of the late-18th- and early-19th-century revolutions was crystallized in the concepts of Atlantic history and 'occidental revolution'. In 1955, Godechot collaborated with the Yale historian Robert Roswell Palmer to present a joint paper on 'the problem of Atlantic history' at the 10th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Rome.William O'Reilly, 'Genealogies of Atlantic History', ''Atlantic Studies'' 1:1 (2004), 66 — 84

Works

* ''Histoire de l'Atlantique'', Paris: Bordas, 1947 * ''Les institutions de la France sous la Révolution et l'émpire'', Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1951 * (with R. R. Palmer) 'Le problème de l’Atlantique du XVIIIième au XXième siècle.' Comitato internazionale di scienze storiche. X8 Congresso internazionale di Scienze storiche, Roma 4–11 Settembre 1955. Relazioni 5 (Storia contemporanea). Florence, 1955: 175–239 * ''La grande nation: l'expansion révolutionnaire de la France dans le monde de 1789 à 1799'', Paris: Aubier, 1956. * ''La contre-révolution: doctrine et action, 1789-1804'', Paris Presses universitaires de France, 1961. Translated by Salvator Attanasio as ''The counter-revolution: doctrine and action, 1789-1804'', 1971. * ''La pensée révolutionnaire en France et en Europe, 1780-1799'', Paris: A. Colin, 1963 * ''L'Europe et l'Amérique à l'époque napoléonienne (1800-1815)'', Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1967 * ''La prise de la Bastille 14 juillet 1789'', Paris: Gallimard, 1965. Translated by Jean Stewart, with an introduction by

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as ''The taking of the Bastille, July 14th, 1789'', 1970 * ''Les Révolutions, 1770–1799'', Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1963. Translated by Herbert H. Rowen as ''France and the Atlantic revolution of the eighteenth century, 1770-1799'', 1965. * (with Beatrice Fry Hyslop and David L. Dowd) ''The Napoleonic era in Europe'', New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. * ''Les Constitutions de la France depuis 1789'', Flammarion, Paris, 1979 . * (ed.) ''Considérations sur la Révolution française'' by

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