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BARON DE AMABLE GUILLAUME PROSPER BRUGIERE BARANTE (1782-1866) , French statesman and historian, the son of an advocate, wasSee also: born at See also: Riom on the loth of See also: June 1782
.
At the age of sixteen he entered the Ecole Polytechnique at
38o
See also: Paris, and at twenty obtained his first See also: appointment in the See also: civil service
.
His abilities secured him rapid promotion, and in 18o6 he obtained the See also: post of auditor to the council of See also: state
.
After being employed in several See also: political See also: missions in See also: Germany, Poland and See also: Spain, during the next two years, he became See also: prefect of See also: Vendee
.
At the See also: time of the return of See also: Napoleon I. he held the prefecture of See also: Nantes, and this post he immediately resigned
.
On the second restoration of the Bourbons he was made councillor of state and secretary-general of the See also: ministry of the interior
.
After filling for several years the post of director-general of indirect taxes, he was created in 1819 a peer of See also: France and was prominent among the Liberals
.
After the revolution of See also: July 183o, M. de Barante was appointed ambassador to See also: Turin, and five years later to St See also: Petersburg
.
Throughout the reign of See also: Louis Philippe he remained a supporter of the
See also: government; and after the fall of the See also: monarchy, in See also: February 1848, he withdrew from political affairs and retired to his country seat in See also: Auvergne
.
Shortly before his retirement he had been made See also: grand See also: cross of the See also: Legion of Honour
.
Barante's Histoire See also: des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de Valois, which appeared in a series of volumes between 1824 and 1828, procured him immediate See also: admission to the French See also: Academy
.
Its narrative qualities, and purity of See also: style, won high praise from the romantic school, but it exhibits a lack of the critical sense and of scientific scholarship
.
Amongst his other See also: literary See also: works are a Tableau de la litterature francaise au dixhuitieme siecle, of which several See also: editions were published; Des communes et de l'aristocratie (1821); a French See also: translation of the dramatic works of Schiller; Questions constitutionnelles (185o); Histoire de la See also: Convention Nationale, which appeared in six volumes between 1851 and 1853; Histoire du Directoire de la Republique francaise (1855); Etudes historiques et biographiques (1857); La See also: Vie politique de M
.
Royer-Collard (1861)
.
The version of See also: Hamlet for Guizot's See also: Shakespeare was his See also: work
.
He died on the 22nd of See also: November 1866
.
His Souvenirs were published by his See also: grandson (Paris, 189o-99)
.
See also the article by Guizot in the Revue des deux Mondes, July 1867
.
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