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Alphonse Aulard[AlfONs´ OlAr´] Pronunciation Key, 1849–1928, French historian. He was the first professional historian of the French Revolution, and he devoted his life to this study. A professor at the Univ. of Paris, he founded the SociEtE de l'Histoire de la REvolution and the bimonthly review REvolution franCaise. Aulard regarded the conservative interpretation of Taine as prejudiced; nevertheless, he himself clearly represented the republican, bourgeois, and anticlerical concept of the Revolution. He concentrated on political history. Some of his students, notably Albert Mathiez, broke with his emphasis and turned to social and economic issues. Aulard's works include several large collections of edited material, notably Recueil des actes des comitE de salut public (16 vol., 1889–1904) and La SociEtE des Jacobins (6 vol., 1889–97); his major studies are Etudes et leCons sur la REvolution franCaise (9 vol., 1893–1924), Histoire politique de la REvolution franCaise (1901; tr. The French Revolution: A Political History, 4 vol., 1910, repr. 1965), Les Grands Orateurs de la REvolution: Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Danton, Robespierre (1914), and La REvolution franCaise et le rEgime fEodal (1919).
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