Joseph François Michaud
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Joseph François Michaud , 1767-1839, French journalist and historian. Under the Directory he was deported for advocating the restoration of the Bourbons. On his return (1799) to France he wrote a History of the Crusades (tr., 3 vol., 1852; repr. 1972), still widely read. He was chief editor of the Biographie universelle (52 vol., 1811-28; rev. ed., 45 vol., 1853-66), a biographical reference work.
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
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