Laure Junot Abrantès (Duchess of)
(1784/1838)
A memoirist, friend of Josephine, wife of General Junot, her Memoirs on the Revolution, the Empire and the Restoration were a considerable success.
Eugène Albertini
(1880/1941)
Formé à l’Ecole normale supérieure et membre de l’Ecole française de Rome, il obtient en 1920 la chaire des Antiquités de l’Afrique à la Faculté d’Alger, avant de devenir Directeur des Antiquités d’Algérie puis d’entrer au Collège de France.
Edouard Alençon (d’)
(1859/1928)
Historien normand, frère mineur capucin, il est l’archiviste général de l’ordre des Capucins.
Jean-Jacques Ampère
(1800/1864)
Historien médiéviste, il fait le voyage d’Orient avec Prosper Mérimée. Elu à l’Académie française en 1848.
Louis Pierre Anquetil
(1723/1806)
Historien, emprisonné sous la Terreur, membre de l’Institut (1795), auteur d’une Histoire de France.
Octave Aubry
(1881/1946)
Historian, essayist, but also novelist and poet, he devoted himself primarily to Napoleon and Napoleon III. He was elected to the French Academy in 1946, but he was never formally inducted, having died before he could submit his acceptance speech to the reading committee.
Paul Azan
(1874/1951)
Général de corps d’armée et historien, directeur du service historique de l’armée 1928-1933, il prit une part importante à la pacification du Maroc.
Jean Babelon
(1889/1978)
Historian and numismatist, he spent his entire career as curator at the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which he directed between 1937 and 1961.
Jacques Bainville
(1879/1936)
Monarchist and nationalist journalist and historian, close to Charles Maurras, member of the French Academy.
George Bancroft
(1800/1891)
American historian and politician, founder of the U.S. Naval Academy, he is the author of History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.