Maxime Leroy (28 March 1873 – 15 September 1957) was a French jurist and social historian.

Career

Maxime Leroy studied law at the

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, where he obtained his doctorate in 1898. A friend of Victor Griffuelhes and

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, he devoted his first works to the development of trade unionism and its legal and social impact. In 1909 he founded the "Société des amis du lac" at

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, where writers such as J.-H. Rosny jeune, Paul Margueritte and

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had been meeting for some years. A member of the Human Rights League of France and a supporter of the

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, he participated in numerous international meetings and had a correspondence with

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Sigmund Freud « Lettre à Maxime Leroy sur quelques rêves de Descartes » (1925) in ''Revue française de psychanalyse'', 45, 1, 1981. and

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. From 1937, he was a professor at the

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. His most important work, ''Histoire des idées sociales en France'', was published in three volumes between 1946 and 1954. For the

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, he edited the ''Port-Royal'' by

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, published in 1953. He was elected a member of the

Académie des sciences morales et politiques An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

in 1954.

Works

*1898: ''L'Esprit de la législation napoléonienne, esquisse d'une étude critique'' *1904: ''Le Code civil et le droit nouveau'' *1905: ''Le Droit des fonctionnaires'' *1907: ''Les Transformations de la puissance publique : les syndicats de fonctionnaires'' *1908: ''La Loi : essai sur la théorie de l'autorité dans la démocratie'' *1909: ''Syndicats et services publics : histoire de l'organisation ouvrière jusqu'à la C.G.T., les syndicats ouvriers et la loi, la crise des services publics, les associations de fonctionnaires'' *1913: ''La Coutume ouvrière, syndicats, bourses du travail, fédérations professionnelles, coopératives, doctrines et institutions'' (2 volumes) *1914: ''L'Alsace-Lorraine, porte de France, porte d'Allemagne'' *1917: ''L'Ère Wilson : la Société des Nations'' *1921: ''Les Techniques nouvelles du syndicalisme'' *1922: ''Vers une république heureuse'' *1924: ''

Henri de Saint-Simon Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon (; ; 17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), better known as Henri de Saint-Simon (), was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on po ...

: le socialisme des producteurs'' *1925: ''La Vie véritable du comte Henri de Saint-Simon : 1760–1825'' *1925: ''Les Premiers Amis français de Wagner'' *1927: ''La Ville française : institutions et libertés locales'' *1928: ''Fénelon'' *1929: ''Stendhal politique'' *1929: ''Descartes, le philosophe au masque'' (2 volumes) *1931: ''Descartes social'' *1932: ''La Société des Nations. Guerre ou paix ?'' *1933: ''Taine'' *1935: ''Introduction à l'art de gouverner'' *1936: ''Soorts-Hossegor'' *1937: ''Les Tendances du pouvoir et de la liberté en France au XXe siècle'' *1939
''Le Mythe du phénix dans les littératures grecque et latine''
with Jean Hubaux. *1940: ''La Pensée de Sainte-Beuve'' *1941: ''La Politique de Sainte-Beuve'' *1946–1954: ''Histoire des idées sociales en France'' (3 volumes) *1947: ''Le Socialisme'' (3 volumes) *1947: ''Vie de Sainte-Beuve'' *1948: ''Les Précurseurs français du socialisme de Condorcet à Proudhon, texts compiled and presented by Maxime Leroy''

Bibliography

*Jean-Claude Drouin, ''Un homme de lettres à Hossegor, Maxime Leroy 1873-1957'', Association Littéraire des Amis du Lac d'Hossegor, 2004.

References

External links

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Maxime Leroy, Histoire des idées sociales en France : 1946, De Montesquieu à Robespierre (compte rendu)
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