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Born and educated at Le Havre, he went to Paris to complete his education, lodging with the family of De Pressensé. The influence of Edmond de Pressensé, a pastor and large-minded theologian, and of Madame de Pressensé, a woman of superior intellect and refined feeling, who devoted her life to educational works and charity, made a great impression on him. In 1865 he left the école normale supérieure, and went to Germany, where he studied at the University of Göttingen and Humboldt University in Berlin. The teaching of Georg Waitz definitely directed his studies towards the history of the middle ages. Returning to France in 1868Events January 3 Meiji Emperor declares " Meiji Restoration", his own restoration to full power, against the supporters of the Tokugawa Shogunate. January 10 Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu declares emperor's declaration "illegal" and attacks Kyoto. Pro-Emperor he was nominated by Victor DuruyJean Victor Duruy ( September 11, 1811 November 25, 1894) was a French historian and statesman. He was born in Paris, the son of a factory worker, and at first intended for his father's trade. Having passed brilliantly through the Ecole Normale Superieure to give lectures on history, following the method used in German seminaries, at the école des hautes etudes.

When the Franco-Prussian WarMars-la-Tour, August 16, 1870 The Franco-Prussian War ( July 19, 1870 May 10, 1871) was waged between the Empire of France and the Prussian led North German Confederation allied with the south German states of Baden, Bavaria and Wurttemberg. The conflict broke out, Gabriel Monod, with his cousins, Alfred and Sarah Monod, organized an ambulance with which he followed the whole campaign, from SedanThe Battle of Sedan was fought during the Franco-Prussian War on September 1-2, 1870. The 100,000 strong French Army of Chalons commanded by Marshal Patrice MacMahon and accompanied by the French emperor Napoleon III, was attempting to relieve the Siege o to Mans . He wrote a small book of memoirs of this campaign, Allemands et français (1871), in which he spoke of the conquerors without bitterness; this attitude was all the more praiseworthy as his mother was originally from AlsaceRegion Alsace ( In Detail) ( In Detail) Information Capital: Strasbourg Population Total Density 1,734,145 1999 209/km² Area8,280 km² Arrondissements13 Cantons75 Communes903 President of the regional council Adrien Zeller ( UMP) Departements Bas-Rhin (67), and he was unable to resign himself to the loss of Alsace and LorraineLorraine Region Details Information Capital Metz Population Total ( 1999) Density 2,310,376 98 /km² Area 23,547 km² Arrondissements19 Cantons157 Communes2,337 President of the regional council Jean-Pierre Masseret Departements Meurthe-et-Moselle (54) Meus.

The war being over he returned to teaching. At this period of his life he wrote Gregoire de ToursGregory of Tours (c. 538 November 17, 594?) was a Gallo-Roman historian and bishop of Tours, which made him the leading prelate of Gaul. He wrote in a clumsy, ungrammatical and barbarized late Latin attempt at a literary style, which is full of vitality n et Marius d'Avenche (1872); Fredegaire, whose history, taken from original manuscripts, he published in 1885; a translation of a book of W Junghans, Histoire critique des règnes de Childerich et de Chlodovech, with introduction and notes (1879); Etudes critiques sur les sources de l'Histoire carolingienne (1898, 1st part only published); and Bibliographie de l'histoire de France (1888). He himself said that his pupils were his best books; he intended to teach them not so much new facts as the way to study, endeavouring to develop in them an idea of criticism and truth. They showed their gratitude by dedicating a book to him in 1896, Etudes d'histoire du moyen âge, and after his retirement in 1905 by having his features engraved on a slab (see A Gabriel Monod, en souvenir de son enseignement: école pratique des hautes études, 1868-1905, école normale supérieure, 1880-1904. May 26, 1907).

In 1875Events January 12 Kwang-su becomes emperor of China. February 27 Newton Booth, 11th Governor of California resigns, having been elected Senator. Lieutenant Governor of California Romualdo Pacheco becomes acting Governor. He is later replaced by elected go he founded the Revue Historique, which rapidly became a great authority on scientific education. Some of his articles in this and other periodicals have been put together in book form, Les Maitres de l'histoire: Ernest Renan, Hippolyte Taine, Jules Michelet (1894); Portraits et souvenirs (1897: on Victor Hugo, Fustel de Coulanges, V Duruy, etc.).