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François Guizot

1787 - 1874

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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (French: [fʁɑ̃swa pjɛʁ ɡijom ɡizo]; 4 October 1787 – 12 September 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848. A conservative liberal who opposed the attempt by King Charles X to usurp legislative power, he worked to sustain a constitutional monarchy following the July Revolution of 1830. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Guizot has received more than 427,187 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). François Guizot is the 45th most popular historian (up from 47th in 2019), the 644th most popular biography from France (up from 697th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Historian.

François Guizot was a French statesman who served as the Prime Minister of France from 1847 to 1848 and again from 1848 to 1851. He is most famous for his strong opposition to the French Revolution of 1848, and for his support of the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, François Guizot ranks 45 out of 561. Before him are Ali ibn al-Athir, Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani, Lucien Febvre, Samuel von Pufendorf, Erwin Panofsky, and Euhemerus. After him are Leonardo Bruni, Niketas Choniates, Aby Warburg, Henri Pirenne, Ernst Gombrich, and Joseph Justus Scaliger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, François Guizot ranks 5. Before him are Louis Daguerre, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Shaka, and Vuk Karadžić. After him are Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Rasmus Rask, Guillaume Henri Dufour, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov. Among people deceased in 1874, François Guizot ranks 5. Before him are Anders Jonas Ångström, Millard Fillmore, Jules Michelet, and Adolphe Quetelet. After him are David Strauss, Johann Philipp Reis, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, Josiah Warren, Marià Fortuny, Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, and Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Guizot ranks 644 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), Hugues de Payens (1074), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Emma of Normandy (985), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), and Ariovistus (-101). After him are Louis Blériot (1872), Maurice Chevalier (1888), Hugh the Great (898), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Ansgar (801), and Georges Perec (1936).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, François Guizot ranks 8. Before him are Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Fernand Braudel (1902), Marc Bloch (1886), Hippolyte Taine (1828), Jacques Le Goff (1924), and Lucien Febvre (1878). After him are Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Gaston Maspero (1846), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929), Georges Duby (1919), and Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914).

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