Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry (2 August 1797,
Blois
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,
Loir-et-Cher
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27 March 1873, Paris), French journalist and historian, was the younger brother of
Augustin.
Biography
Amédée Thierry began life as a journalist (after an essay, like his brother, at schoolmastering). Connected with the romantic harbinger ''Globe'', he obtained a small government clerkship. His first book was a brief history of
Guienne
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in 1825, and three years later appeared the first volume of the ''Histoire des Gaulois'', which was received with much favour, and obtained him, from the royalist premier
Martignac
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Martignac was born in Bordeaux, France. In 179 ...
, a history professorship at
Besançon
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. He was, however, thought too liberal for the government of
Charles X
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, and his lectures were stopped, with the result of securing him, after the revolution, the important post of prefect of the
Haute-Saône
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'' till 1860, when he was made senator—a paid office, it must be remembered, and, in effect, a lucrative sinecure. He also passed through all the ranks of the
Legion of Honour
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, became a member of the ''Academie des Inscriptions'' in 1841, and in 1862 received the honorary degree of D.C.L. at
Oxford
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. He had, except during the time of his prefecture, never intermitted his literary work, being a constant contributor to the ''Revue des deux mondes'', his articles (usually worked up afterwards into books) almost all dealing with Roman
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and its period.
Works
*''Histoire des Gaulois'', 3 vols. (1828, 1834, 1845; the 8th edition of vol. i. appeared in 1870)
*''Histoire de la Gaule sous l'administration romaine'' (3 vols., 1840–47; 2nd ed. 1871)
*''Histoire d'Attila, de ses fils et successeurs jusqu'à l'établissement des Hongrois en Europe'' (1856; 5th ed. in 1874)
*''Tableau de l'Empire romain'' (1862; 5th ed. in 1871; now quite out of date)
*''Récits de l'histoire romaine au Ve siecle: la lutte contre les Barbares, et les luttes religieuses'' (1860; 2nd ed. in 6 vols. 1880).
His son, Gilbert Augustin Thierry (1843–1915), who began a literary career by articles on ''Les Révolutions d'Angleterre'' (1864) and some ''Essais d'histoire religieuse'' (1867), afterwards confined himself to the writing of novels.
The journalist and writer
Charles Canivet Charles-Alfred Canivet (10 February 1839, in Valognes – 1911 ibid) was a 19th-century French poet, journalist, novelist, and storyteller.
A secretary by Amédée Thierry, he wrote a daily column for the '' Soleil'' under the pseudonym "Jean de N ...
was his secretary.
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1797 births
1873 deaths
Writers from Blois
19th-century French historians
French scholars of Roman history
19th-century French journalists
Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur
Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
Prefects of Haute-Saône
French Senators of the Second Empire
19th-century French male writers
French male non-fiction writers