French historian; popularized the historical concept of the Renaissance
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He gave the Renaissance its name. Jules Michelet, the French historian who turned the story of a nation into literature, coined the term to describe Europe's cultural rebirth—and in doing so shaped how generations would see the break between medieval darkness and modern light.
Born in Paris on 21 August 1798, Michelet built his career on a conviction borrowed from Giambattista Vico: that history belonged to ordinary people, not just kings and generals. His multi-volume Histoire de France traced the nation from its earliest origins to the Revolution, weaving customs and common life into the chronicle. Along the way he systematically applied the French word "Renaissance" to an entire era—taking a term the Italian art historian Giorgio Vasari had used in 1550 for a revival in painting and expanding it into shorthand for post-medieval humanism and intellectual transform…
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Michelet held that the Vedas "were undoubtedly the first monument of the world" and that from India emanated "a torrent of light and the flow of reason and Right".
The year 1863 will remain cherished and blessed. It was the first time I could read India’s great sacred poem, the divine Ramayana....
With the world began a war that will only end with the world, and not before: that of man against nature, mind against matter, freedom against fate.
The intimate fusion of races is the identity of our nation, its personality.
Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness.
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