Albert Duruy
Albert Duruy (2 January 1844 – 12 August 1887) was a French historian and journalist.
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Biography
Albert Duruy was born in Paris, the son of the Minister of Public Instruction Victor Duruy[1] and Adèle von Graffenried, a widow from a large Swiss family in the Canton of Bern. He had several siblings,[2] most notably a younger brother, novelist and historian Georges Duruy.
Albert Duruy attended the École Normale Supérieure. On 19 July 1870, at the same day the Franco-Prussian War was declared, Duruy enlisted in the Tirailleur regiment. He fought in Wissembourg and Frœschwiller. Made prisoner, he was interned in Mayenne.
Under the pen name Albert Villeneuve, he contributed to various newspapers of the time (Le Peuple Français, La Liberté,...) and was the author of military and education history studies. Duruy also wrote to defend free education and the role of Latin in the curriculum.[3]
In 1886, he was the witness of Édouard Drumont during the duel that opposed him to Arthur Meyer, on the occasion of the publication of La France juive. During this duel, Albert Duruy had to take Meyer's sword twice, as he had grabbed it with his left hand, which was prohibited.[4]
He was the first chair holder of a course of literature given to girls in the Sorbonne.
Abert Duruy died in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Val-de-Marne, after a long illness.
Works
- Les nouveaux Robinsons: Aventures extraordinaires de deux enfants qui cherchent leur mère (1865; with Eugénie Foa)
- Comment les empires reviennent (1875)
- La liberté d'enseignement et les projets de M. Jules Ferry (1879)
- L'Article Sept et la liberté d'enseignement devant le Sénat (1880)
- L'Instruction publique et la Révolution (1882; awarded the Montyon Prize)
- Hoche et Marceau (1885)
- L'instruction publique et la démocratie 1879-1886 (1886)
- Le brigadier Muscar (1886)
- L'Armée royale en 1789 (1888)
- Études d'histoire militaire sur la révolution et l'empire (1889)
Notes
- ↑ Geslot, Jean-Charles (2009). Victor Duruy. Historien et Ministre (1811-1894). Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
- ↑ Victorine-Élise (1837–1841), Gabrielle (1841–1865), Anatole (1842–1879), Georges (1853–1918), Hélène (1857–1872).
- ↑ Houdart-Mérot, Violaine; Ralph Albanese (2008). "Literary Education in the "Lycée": Crises, Continuity, and Upheaval since 1880," Yale French Studies, No. 113, pp. 29–45.
- ↑ Bernanos, Georges (1998). La Grande Peur des Bien-pensants. Paris: Le Livre de Poche.
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