Paul Mantoux (14 April 1877 – 14 December 1956) was a French

economic historian Economic history is the study of history using methodological tools from economics or with a special attention to economic phenomena. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of ...

of the

Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a transitional period of the global economy toward more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes, succee ...

who taught at the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

, the

Conservatoire national des arts et métiers The (; ; abbr. CNAM) is an AMBA-accredited French ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement''. It is a member of the '' Conférence des Grandes écoles'', which is an equivalent to the Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in th ...

, and the

Geneva Graduate Institute The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (, abbreviated IHEID), commonly referred to as Geneva Graduate Institute, is a graduate-level research university in Geneva, Switzerland dedicated to international relations, dev ...

. His best known work is the 1906 book ''The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England'', which fellow economic historian T. S. Ashton stated was "by far the best introduction to the subject in any language." Mantoux was the interpreter of

Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who was Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the poli ...

at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. He was subsequently director of the Political Section of the

League of Nations The League of Nations (LN or LoN; , SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), Paris Peace ...

's secretariat. In 1927, he co-founded the

, along with

William Rappard William Emmanuel Rappard (April 22, 1883, New York City – April 29, 1958) was a Swiss academic and diplomat. Rappard was as a co-founder of the Graduate Institute of International Studies (now IHEID), Professor of Economic History at the Univer ...

. Mantoux trained at the

École normale supérieure (Paris) The – PSL (; also known as ENS, , Ulm or ENS Paris) is a ''grande école'' in Paris, France. It is one of the constituent members of Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL). Due to its selectivity, historical role, and influence within F ...

. One of his children was the economist Étienne Mantoux.

Works

* ''La Révolution industrielle au XVIIIe siècle. Essai sur les commencements de la grande industrie moderne en Angleterre''. Paris: Société de librairie et d'édition, 1906, 544 pp. ** English translation: ''The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England'' tr. Marjorie Vernon. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929, 539 pp. *''A travers l'Angleterre contemporaine : la guerre Sud-Africaine et l'opinion, l'organisation du parti ouvrier, l'évolution du gouvernement et de l'État''. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1909. *''The Deliberations of the Council of Four (March 24-June 28, 1919) / Notes of the Official Interpreter, Paul Mantoux''; Translated and Edited by Arthur S. Link, with the Assistance of Manfred F. Boemeke. Princeton University Press, 1992.

References

École Normale Supérieure alumni 1877 births 1956 deaths French male non-fiction writers Economic historians Academic staff of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies {{France-historian-stub