Jacques Léon Godechot (3 January 1907 – 24 August 1989) was a French

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

of the

French revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considere ...

, and a pioneer of

Atlantic history Atlantic history is a specialty field in history that studies the Atlantic World in the early modern period. The Atlantic World was created by the discovery of a new land by Europeans, and Atlantic History is the study of that world. It is p ...

. As a frequent and varied contributor to the ''Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française'', he acted as "a mediator, an intermediary between readers of the journal and Anglo-Saxon and Italian historiography of the Revolution". His emphasis on the international dimension of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century revolutions was crystallized in the concepts of

and 'occidental revolution'. In 1955 Godechot collaborated with the Yale historian

Robert Roswell Palmer Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 – June 11, 2002) was an American historian at Princeton University, Princeton and Yale University, Yale universities, who specialized in eighteenth-century France. His most influential work of scholarship ...

to present a joint paper on 'the problem of Atlantic history' at the 10th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Rome.William O'Reilly, 'Genealogies of Atlantic History', ''Atlantic Studies'' 1:1 (2004), 66 — 84

Works

* ''Histoire de l'Atlantique'', Paris: Bordas, 1947 * ''Les institutions de la France sous la Révolution et l'émpire'', Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1951 * (with R. R. Palmer) 'Le problème de l’Atlantique du XVIIIième au XXième siècle.' Comitato internazionale di scienze storiche. X8 Congresso internazionale di Scienze storiche, Roma 4–11 Settembre 1955. Relazioni 5 (Storia contemporanea). Florence, 1955: 175–239 * ''La grande nation: l'expansion révolutionnaire de la France dans le monde de 1789 à 1799'', Paris: Aubier, 1956. * ''La contre-révolution: doctrine et action, 1789-1804'', Paris Presses universitaires de France, 1961. Translated by

Salvator Attanasio Salvator Attanasio (September 9, 1913 – June 3, 1993) was an American literary translator, who translated over 200 works of literature, history and philosophy.Salvator Attanasio, 79, A Literary Translator, ''New York Times'', 9 June 1993. Attana ...

as ''The counter-revolution: doctrine and action, 1789-1804'', 1971. * ''La pensée révolutionnaire en France et en Europe, 1780-1799'', Paris: A. Colin, 1963 * ''L'Europe et l'Amérique à l'époque napoléonienne (1800-1815)'', Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1967 * ''La prise de la Bastille 14 juillet 1789'', Paris: Gallimard, 1965. Translated by Jean Stewart, with an introduction by

Charles Tilly Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929 – April 29, 2008) was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society. He was a professor of history, sociology, and social science at the Univ ...

as ''The taking of the Bastille, July 14th, 1789'', 1970 * ''Les Révolutions, 1770–1799'', Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1963. Translated by

Herbert H. Rowen Herbert Harvey Rowen (22 October 1916 in Brooklyn, New York – 31 March 1999 in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania), was a noted American historian of Early Modern Europe and "arguably the most important English-speaking historian of the Dut ...

as ''France and the Atlantic revolution of the eighteenth century, 1770-1799'', 1965. * (with Beatrice Fry Hyslop and David L. Dowd) ''The Napoleonic era in Europe'', New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. * ''Les Constitutions de la France depuis 1789'', Flammarion, Paris, 1979 . * (ed.) ''Considérations sur la Révolution française'' by

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References

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