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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 396,138 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). François Guizot is the 47th most popular historian (down from 9th in 2019), the 698th most popular biography from France (down from 632nd 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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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, François Guizot ranks 47 out of 339. Before him are Aby Warburg, Ernst Gombrich, Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani, Ali ibn al-Athir, Niketas Choniates, and Jared Diamond. After him are Poggio Bracciolini, Tzvetan Todorov, Callisthenes, John Skylitzes, Marcus Velleius Paterculus, and Socrates of Constantinople.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, François Guizot ranks 698 out of 6,011. Before him are Bernard Gui (1261), Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), Frédéric Bastiat (1801), Roger Garaudy (1913), Catherine Labouré (1806), and Jean Meslier (1664). After him are Nadia Boulanger (1887), Maurice Gamelin (1872), Ausonius (310), Isabella of Angoulême (1188), Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279), and Louise of Savoy (1476).

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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), Georges Duby (1919), Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914), and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929).

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