Jean-François Barrière (12 May 1786 – 22 August 1868) 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 species; as well as the ...
. He wrote about the
French Revolution, most notably an annotated biography of
Madame Roland
Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Roland de la Platière (Paris, March 17, 1754 – Paris, November 8, 1793), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, and best known under the name Madame RolandOccasionally, she is referred to as Dame Roland. This however is the except ...
entitled ''Memoirs de Madame Roland, Avec une Notice sur sa Vie, des Notes et des Eclaircissemens historiques par MM. Saint-Albin Berville et Jean-François Barrière'', edited and published in 1827 by
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly ; ; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence ''La Comédie humaine'', which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is ...
.
Barrière served 18 years in the
Préfecture of Paris, rising through the ranks to become division chief. He was removed from office and forced to retire following the
Revolution of 1848.
19th-century French historians
1786 births
1868 deaths
French male non-fiction writers
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