Pierre Gaxotte (19 November 1895 – 21 November 1982) was a French historian.
Gaxotte was born in Revigny-sur-Ornain, Meuse. He began his career as a history teacher at the Lycée Charlemagne and later worked as a columnist for Le Figaro. Over the course of his life he authored numerous historical studies, and was elected to the Académie française in 1953.
He is famous for his critical vision of the French Revolution, notably in The French Revolution (1928), and for his rehabilitation of the French 18th century (Louis XV's Century, 1933). He is also known as a far-right-wing journalist of the Entre-deux-Guerres period, with links to the Action française and the newspaper Je suis partout.
Works in English translation
- The French Revolution, C. Scribner's Sons, 1932.
- Louis XV and His Times, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1934.
- Frederick the Great, G. Bell and Sons, 1941 .
- The Age of Louis XIV, Macmillan, 1970.
References
- Académie française (2011). "Pierre Gaxotte (1895-1982)" (in French). Academie-francaise.fr. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- Beum, Robert. "Ultra-Royalism Revisited," Modern Age, Summer 1997.
- Andrews, George Gordon. "The French Revolution by Pierre Gaxotte," The Journal of Modern History, Vol. V, No. 1, Mar., 1933.
- Brinton, Crane. "The French Revolution by Pierre Gaxotte," The American Political Science Review, Vol. 26, No. 6, Dec., 1932.
- Trevor-Roper, Hugh. "Frederick the Great," Horizon, July 1941.
- Brinton, Crane. "The Aggressor Can Win," The Saturday Review, May 9, 1942.
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- 1895 births
- 1982 deaths
- People from Meuse (department)
- French monarchists
- People affiliated with Action Française
- Members of the Académie Française
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- Historians of the French Revolution
- French male non-fiction writers
- 20th-century French historians
- 20th-century French male writers
- Le Figaro people