Camille Rousset
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Camille Félix Michel Rousset (15 February 1821, Paris - 19 February 1892, Saint-Gobain
Saint-Gobain
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) was a French historian. He taught at Grenoble
Grenoble
Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...
before becoming a historian to the Ministry of War
Minister of Defence (France)
The Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs is the French government cabinet member charged with running the military of France....
. He was elected to the Académie française
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
in 1871.
Main works
- Précis d'histoire de la Révolution et de l'Empire (1849)
- Histoire de Louvois (4 vol.) (1861-63)
- Correspondance de Louis XV et du maréchal de Noailles (2 vol.) (1865)
- Le Comte de Gisors (1868)
- Les Volontaires de 1791-1794 (1870)
- La Grande Armée de 1813 (1871)
- Histoire de la guerre de CriméeCrimean WarThe Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...
(1877) - La Conquête d'Alger (1879)
- Un ministre de la Restauration : le marquis de Clermont-TonnerreAimé, duc de Clermont-TonnerreAimé-Marie-Gaspard, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre was a French general and statesman.Son of Gaspard-Paulin, vicomte de Clermont-Tonnerre and Anne-Marie-...
(1883) - L'Algérie de 1830 à 1840 (2 vol.) (1887)
- La conquête de l'Algérie, 1841 à 1857 (2 vol.) (1889)
External links
- Académie française
- Livre à télécharger : La conquête d'Alger Camille-Félix-Michel Rousset - Éditions Plon et Cie - 1879 - 291 pages