Louis Emile Marie Madelin (8 May 1871, Neufchâteau (Vosges) - 18 August 1956, Paris) was a French historian (specialising in the French Revolution

French Revolution

The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...

 and First French Empire

First French Empire

The First French Empire , also known as the Greater French Empire or Napoleonic Empire, was the empire of Napoleon I of France...

) and a Republican Federation

Republican Federation

The Republican Federation was the largest conservative party during the French Third Republic, gathering together the liberal Orleanists rallied to the Republic. Founded in November 1903, it rivalized with the more secular and centrist Alliance démocratique...

 deputy for Vosges

Vosges

Vosges is a French department, named after the local mountain range. It contains the hometown of Joan of Arc, Domrémy.-History:The Vosges department is one of the original 83 departments of France, created on February 9, 1790 during the French Revolution. It was made of territories that had been...

 from 1924 to 1928. He is buried at the Cimetière de Grenelle

Cimetière de Grenelle

The Cimetière de Grenelle is a 64 are cemetery on rue Saint-Charles in Grenelle, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. It was set up in 1835 and annexed to the city of Paris in 1860. Those buried there include Louis Madelin and the Schmid and Rémondot families....

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Life

Studying history at the École des chartes, he became a member of the École française de Rome then a professor at the faculté des lettres de Paris. He married in 1898, having four children by his first wife and on her death remarrying in 1909 to Marthe Clavery. During the First World War he was conscripted in 1914, becoming a sous-lieutenant and information officer before being demobbed in 1918 and receiving the Croix de guerre

Croix de guerre 1914-1918 (France)

The Croix de guerre 1914–1918 is a French military decoration.-Creation:Soon after the outbreak of World War I, French military officials felt that a new military award had to be created...

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Elected to the Académie française

Académie française

L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...

 in 1927 (replacing Robert de Flers

Robert de Flers

Robert de Flers was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist....

 in seat 5), in Lorraine he became president of the Association des Amis du berceau de Jeanne d'Arc

Joan of Arc

Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" , is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the...

 on the death of Lyautey

Lyautey

Lyautey is the name of:*Hubert Lyautey, military governor and then Resident-General of then-French Morocco from 1907 through 1925*Port Lyautey, Morocco, named after Hubert Lyautey; now renamed Kenitra...

 - the Association organised mass demonstrations in Domrémy from 1937 to 1939 under the aegis of the Compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc

Compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc

The Compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc was an association honouring saint Joan of Arc. From 1937 to 1939 it organised mass patriotic and religious demonstrations at Domrémy in her honour.-9 May 1937:...

. In 1948 he participated in the creation of the Comité pour la Libération du Maréchal Pétain

Works

• 1901 De conventu Bononiensis
• 1901 Fouché
• 1905 Croquis lorrains
• 1906 La Rome de Napoléon
• 1906 Le général Lasalle
• 1911 La Révolution
• 1913 La France et Rome
• 1914 Danton
  Georges Danton
  Georges Jacques Danton was leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety. Danton's role in the onset of the Revolution has been disputed; many historians describe him as "the chief force in theoverthrow of the monarchy and the...
  
  
• 1916 La victoire de la Marne
• 1916 L'aveu, la bataille de Verdun
  Battle of Verdun
  The Battle of Verdun was one of the major battles during the First World War on the Western Front. It was fought between the German and French armies, from 21 February – 18 December 1916, on hilly terrain north of the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France...
  
   et l'opinion allemande

• 1917 La mêlée des Flandres, l'Yser et Ypres
• 1918 L'expansion française de la Syrie au Rhin
• 1919 Les heures merveilleuses d'Alsace et de Lorraine
• 1920 Verdun. La bataille de France.
• 1921 Le chemin de la victoire, 2 vol
• 1922 La France du Directoire
  French Directory
  The Directory was a body of five Directors that held executive power in France following the Convention and preceding the Consulate...
  
  
• 1925 La colline de Chaillot
• 1925 Le maréchal Foch
  Maréchal Foch
  Maréchal Foch can refer to*Ferdinand Foch, a French soldier and writer*Marechal Foch, a hybrid red wine grape named after Ferdinand Foch...
  
  
• 1926 La France de l'Empire
• 1928 Les hommes de la Révolution

• 1929 Le Consulat
  French Consulate
  The Consulate was the government of France between the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire in 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804...
  
   de Bonaparte
• 1931 La Fronde
  Fronde
  The Fronde was a civil war in France, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635. The word fronde means sling, which Parisian mobs used to smash the windows of supporters of Cardinal Mazarin....
  
  
• 1932 Le Consulat et l'Empire, 2 vol
• 1933 Les grandes étapes de l'Histoire de France
• 1935 Lettres inédites de Napoléon
  Napoleon I of France
  Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...
  
   à l'impératrice Marie-Louise
  Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
  Marie Louise of Austria was the second wife of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French and later Duchess of Parma...
  
  , écrites de 1810 à 1814. Napoléon. La Contre-Révolution sous la Révolution
• 1936 Le crépuscule de la monarchie
• 1937 François Ier
  Francis I of France
  Francis I was King of France from 1515 until his death. During his reign, huge cultural changes took place in France and he has been called France's original Renaissance monarch...
  
  , le souverain politique
• 1937-1953 Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, 16 vol.
• 1944 Talleyrand
• 1945 Édition des Mémoires de Fouché.