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Gregory is recognized as the "father of French history". [4] Richerus (fl. 10th century), monk and historian [1] Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150–1210), chronicler of the Fourth Crusade; his account of the Conquest of Constantinople is the oldest surviving historical writing in French. [5] Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 1400–1453), chronicler [1]
As a historian, he put together the first chronicle intended as a complete history of England, very extensive but largely undigested and uncritical. [1] Written in French, in its second version it extends from 688 to 1471, though the added later period covering the Wars of the Roses shows a strong bias towards Burgundy's Yorkist allies.
William Doyle FBA (born 1942) is a British historian, specialising in 18th-century France, who is most notable for his one-volume Oxford History of the French Revolution (1st edition, 1989; 2nd edition, 2002; 3rd edition, 2018). [1]
David Durand (1680 – 16 January 1763) was a Huguenot French and English minister and historian.He was born in Languedoc and fled France to the Netherlands before heading to Spain with a group of refugees, being captured at the Battle of Almanza in 1707 and being sent to France and then escaping to the Netherlands again.
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville [a] (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), [7] was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political philosopher, and historian.He is best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
John M. Merriman (born 1946) - French Historian; Jules Michelet (1798–1874) – French historian; Roland Mousnier (1907–1993) – early modern France; Robert Roswell Palmer (1909–2002) – French revolution; Robert Paxton (born 1932) – Vichy France; Pierre Renouvin (1893–1974) – French diplomatic history; Andrew Roberts (born 1963 ...
2.1 French Ambassadors to England (1526–1688) 2.2 French Ambassadors to Great Britain (1697–1801) 2.3 French Ambassadors to the United Kingdom (1801–present)
Jean-Louis Bacque-Grammont; Paul Bairoch; Françoise Balibar; Bernard Barbiche; Colette Barbier; Jean-Pierre Bardet; Dominique Barthélémy; Marc-Olivier Baruch