Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière baron de Barante
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Guillaume-Prosper Brugière Barante
Barante, Guillaume-Prosper Brugière, baron de (1782-1866). Best remembered for his Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne (1824-6), Barante occupies an important position among the French historians of the Restoration. In 1808 he published a Tableau de la littérature française au XVIIIe siècle, while as late as 1851-3 he brought out a history of the Revolutionary Convention. His political writings are of interest to students of Restoration liberal thought.
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Barante, Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de (ämä'blə gēyōm' prôspĕr' brüzhyĕr' bärôN' də bäräNt'), 1782-1866, French statesman and historian. He held numerous administrative and diplomatic posts but retired with the downfall of Louis Philippe (1848). Of his historical works, the best known is a history of the duchy of Burgundy (1824). His Souvenirs (8 vol., 1890-1901), published posthumously, have considerable charm and some value as historical source material.
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