Paul Guiraud (15 January 1850 – 25 February 1907) was a French

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born in

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, a commune located in the department of

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. He was the brother of historian

Jean Guiraud Jean-Baptiste Guiraud (24 June 1866 – 11 December 1953) was a French historian and journalist. For many years he was co-editor of the Catholic journal '' La Croix''. He was a prolific author and wrote many books on historical and other subjects ...

.Catalogue général de la librairie française: 1900-1905
by Otto Henri Lorenz, Daniel Jordell, Henri Stein Paul Guiraud was a professor of

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to the faculties at

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and

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, and later a lecturer at the

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. In 1906 he was elected a member of the ''

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''.

Written works

Among his better written efforts were an 1896

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of his former teacher,

Fustel de Coulanges Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (; 18 March 1830 – 12 September 1889) was a French historian. Biography Coulanges was born in Paris; he was of Breton descent. After studying at the École Normale Supérieure, he attended the French School a ...

(1830–1889), and a work titled "''Vie privée et la vie publique des Grecs''" (Private and public life in

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). Other written works by Guiraud include: * ''Le Différend entre César et le Sénat (59-49 av. J.-C.)'' (Differences between Caesar and the

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(59-49 BC), (1878). * ''Les Assemblées provinciales dans l'Empire romain'' (The provincial assemblies in the

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), (1887). * ''La Propriété foncière en Grèce jusqu'à la conquête romaine'' (Greek regions prior to the Roman Conquest), (1893). * ''La Main-d'œuvre industrielle dans l'ancienne Grèce'' (Industrial labor in

Ancient Greece Ancient Greece () was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically r ...

), (1900). * ''Études économiques sur l'antiquité'' (Economic studies on antiquity), (1905).

References

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''.

External links

* 19th-century French historians 20th-century French historians 1850 births 1907 deaths People from Aude Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques French male non-fiction writers {{France-historian-stub