Fran%C3%A7ois Guizot

Franois Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, a conservative liberal who opposed the attempt by King Charles X to usurp legislative power, and worked to sustain a constitutional monarchy following the July Revolution of 1830.

Guizot was born at Nmes to a bourgeois Protestant family. OnApril 1794, when Franois Guizot was 6, his father was executed on the scaffold at Nmes during the Reign of Terror. From then on, the boys mother was completely responsible for his upbringing.

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