Albert Count Vandal (7 July 1853,

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

– 30 August 1910, Paris) was a French historian, born in

. He wrote: * En karriole à travers la Suède et la Norvège'' (1876) * ''Louis XV et Elizabeth de Russie'' (1882) * ''Ambassade française en Orient sous Louis XV'' (1887) * ''Napoléon et Alexandre Ier'' (three volumes, 1894-97), awarded the Vaubert prize *
Les voyages du Marquis de Nointel
' (1900) * ''L'avènement de Bonaparte'' (1902) Vandal was elected to the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

in 1897, and he succeeded his teacher and friend,

Albert Sorel Albert Sorel (13 August 184229 June 1906) was a French historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times. Life He was born at Honfleur and remained throughout his life a lover of his native Normandy. His father, a rich man ...

as professor at the school of political science.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vandal, Albert 1853 births 1910 deaths Writers from Paris 19th-century French historians 19th-century French writers French educators Members of the Académie Française Knights of the Legion of Honour Members of the Ligue de la patrie française French male non-fiction writers