... of the nineteenth-century historian Augustin Thierry is an unfortunate consequence. Barthes Roland Aspen Dorfles Gillo Éditions du Seuil Form Genette Gérard Johns Hopkins University ‘The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man’ Lettres nouvelles Moles Abraham Le Monde Picard Raymond Social...

... period, however, came from Augustin Thierry, who as a self-proclaimed commoner, presented the Merovingian period as one of class oppression. Equally important, he did so in a highly popular format, modelled on the writings of Walter Scott. His brother, Amédée Thierry, specialized on the history...

... national type’ ( Main Currents in Nineteenth-Century French Literature (New York, n.d.), iii. 224 ). Yet, however rash, in the course of the nineteenth century this view of the Celt as quintessentially ‘French’ attracted a wide variety of adherents (including Augustin Thierry's brother...

... transfer Johann Gottfried von Herder Göttingen school Scottish Enlightenment William Robertson Nikolai Karamzin Augustin Thierry François Guizot Jules Michelet An insight into my historians' intellectual world may help to contextualize their achievements in the field of national history and beyond...

..., Burgundians, and Visigoths in late Roman Gaul. They thus challenged prevailing views in France of the population's exclusively Gallic ancestry, contradicting the influential writings of Parisian historians like Augustin Thierry and Numa-Denis Fustel de Coulanges. Although some scholars drew on this material...