Albert Pierre Jules Joseph Bayet (1 February 1880,

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– on 26 June 1961,

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) was a French sociologist, professor at both the

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and the

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Biography

He was the son of

Charles Bayet Charles Marie Adolphe Louis Bayet (25 May 1849, Liège – 16 September 1918, Toulon) was a French historian, who was a specialist in Byzantine art. Biography From 1868 he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, then enlisted f ...

, Byzantine art historian, director of higher education, and the son-in-law of the historian

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. He graduated in 1901, becoming a professor at the

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in 1922. In 1923, he became directory of studies in the « Histoire des idées morales » 'ethics''department of the

, later leading ethics courses at the

Plaque Albert Bayet, 2 rue Monsieur-le-Prince, Paris 6

He was the president of the French National Press Federation (FNPF) from 25 August 1944 to his death in 1961. After having been clandestine president in 1943 and 1944, participating with writer Victor Charbonnel in the journal ''L'Action''. He was also member of the

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for many years, president of the ''

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'' from 1949 to 1959, and general secretary of the . He also took part in those which, shortly after the liberation, left the Radical party to join the Progressive Union, the 'kindred spirit' to the

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. Bayet was a proponent of the

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. With

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and Prosper Alfaric he authored ''Le Problème de Jésus et les Origines du Christianisme'' (The Problem of Jesus and Christian Origins, 1932).

Works

* ''Les Écrivains politiques du XVIIIe'', extracts with an introduction and notes by Albert Bayet and François Albert, 1904
''La Morale scientifique, essai sur les applications morales des sciences sociologiques''
1907 * ''L'Idée de Bien, essai sur le principe de l'art moral rationnel'', 1908
''Les Idées mortes''
1908 * ''Le Mirage de la vertu'', 1912 * ''La Casuistique chrétienne contemporaine'', 1913
''Le Suicide et la Morale''
1922 ; 1975 ; 2007 * ''La Science des faites moraux'', 1925 * ''Notre morale'', 1926 * ''Les Morales de l'Évangile'', 1927 * ''Le Livre de morale des écoles primaires. Cours moyen et supérieur'', 1928 * ''Les Provinciales de Pascal'', 1929 * ''Histoire de la morale en France'', 2 vol., 1930-1931 * ''La Morale de la Science'', 1931 ; 1947 * ''Le Problème de Jésus et les Origines du Christianisme'', with et

, 1932 * ''Le Radicalisme'', 1932 * ''Pacifisme et Christianisme aux premiers siècles'', 1934 * ''Attentats et terreur : instruments de conquête politique'', Comité franco-espagnol, brochure, 1937 * ''Histoire de France'', 1938 * ''Qu'est-ce que le rationalisme ?'' 1939 * ''Histoire de la Déclaration des droits de l'homme : du 89 politique au 89 économique'', 1939 * ''Pétain et la Cinquième Colonne'', 1944 (publié clandestinement durant l'Occupation) * ''Les Pensées de Pascal'', 1948 * ''Pour une réconciliation française. Laïcité XXe'', 1958 * ''Histoire de la libre-pensée'', 1959 ; « Que sais-je ? » 848, 1970

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