René Sédillot (2 November 1906 – 21 October 1999) was a French journalist and historian.
Life
Born in Orléans, Sédillot was educated in Paris. He worked for the financial press, joining L'Information Boursiere in 1928 and becoming editor until the paper folded in 1940. In 1945 he became editor of the weekly La Vie francaise (later renamed La Vie financiere).
Works
- Survol de l'histoire du monde, 1949. Translated by Gerard Hopkins as A birds-eye view of world history, 1951. Also published as The history of the world in three hundred pages, 1951
- An outline of French history, 1952. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins.
- 'Survol de l'histoire de France, 1955.
- Histoire des colonisations , 1958.
- Paris, 1962
- (with Franz Pick) All the monies of the world: a chronicle of currency values, 1971
- Histoire du petrole, Paris, 1974
- Le coût de la Révolution française , 1986
- ”L’Histoire n’a pas de sens” , Paris, 1965
References
- ^ Douglas Johnson (3 December 1999). "Obituary: René Sédillot". The Independent. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
External links
- Works by or about René Sédillot at the Internet Archive
- René Sédillot: Le coût de la révolution française video
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