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Michaud was born at Albens, Savoie, educated at Bourg en Bresse, and afterwards engaged in literary work at Lyon, where the French Revolution first aroused the strong dislike of revolutionary principles which manifested itself throughout the rest of his life.
Inhe went to Paris, where, at great risk to his own safety, he took part in editing several royalist journals.
Inhe became editor of La Quotidienne, for which he was arrested after theth of Vendémiaire he evaded his captors, but was sentenced to death in absentia by the military council.
Having resumed the editorship of his newspaper on the establishment of the Directory, he was again proscribed on theth of Fructidor, but after two years returned to Paris, when the C Michaud was born at Albens, Savoie, educated at Bourg en Bresse, and afterwards engaged in literary work at Lyon, where the French Revolution first aroused the strong dislike of revolutionary principles which manifested itself throughout the rest of his life.
Inhe went to Paris, where, at great risk to his own safety, he took part in editing several royalist journals.
Inhe became editor of La Quotidienne, for which he was arrested after theth of Vendémiaire he evaded his captors, but was sentenced to death in absentia by the military council.
Having resumed the editorship of his newspaper on the establishment of the Directory, he was again proscribed on theth of Fructidor, but after two years returned to Paris, when the Consulate had superseded the Directory.
His Bourbon sympathies led to a brief imprisonment in, and on his release he temporarily abandoned journalism, and began to write and edit books.
In, with his brother Louis Gabriel Michaud and two colleagues, he published Biographie moderne ou dictionnaire des hommes qui se sont fait un nom en Europe, depuis, the earliest work of its kind.
Inpublished the first volume of his Histoire des Croisades History of the Crusades and also the first volume of his Biographie Universelle.
Inhe was elected Academician, taking up the vacancy left by the death of Jean François Cailhava de L'Estandoux.
Inhe resumed the editorship of La Quotidienne, His brochure Histoire des quinze semaines ou le dernier règne de Bonapartemet with extraordinary success, passing through twenty seven editions within a very short time.
His political services were now rewarded with the cross of an officer in the Legion of Honour and the modest post of king's reader, of which last he was deprived infor having opposed Peyronnet's "Loi d'Amour" against the freedom of the Press.
Inhe travelled in Syria and Egypt for the purpose of collecting additional materials for the Histoire des Croisades his correspondence with a fellow explorer, Jean Joseph François Poujoulat, consisting practically of discussions and elucidations of various points in that work, was afterwards published Correspondance d'Orient,vols.
,. Like the Histoire, it is interesting than exact, The Bibliothèque des croisades, in four volumes , contained the "Pièces justificatives" of the Histoire, Michaud died at Passy, where his home had been since, Michaud's Histoire des croisades was published in its final form in six volumes inunder the editorship of his friend Poujoulatth ed.
, with appendix, by Huillard Bréholles,, Michaud, along with Poujoulat, also edited Nouvelle collection des mémoires pour servir de l'histoire de Francevols,. See Sainte Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol, vii. In, the famous illustrator Gustave Dore producedpictures for avolume medium folio edition of the Histoire which was published by Hachette and Company.
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