Bernardine Melchior-Bonnet
Bernardine Melchior-Bonnet (11 June 1906 – 23 March 1995) was a French historian and biographer who specialized in the history of the French Revolution and the First Empire.
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Biography
Bernardine Melchior-Bonnet (née Paul-Dubois) was born in Menthon-Saint-Bernard, Haute-Savoie, the daughter of French official and essayist Louis Paul-Dubois (1868–1938). Her older sister, Marie-Louise Riche, was also a noted historian. Bernardine was the granddaughter of Paul Dubois and Hippolyte Taine.[1]
She married the historian Christian Melchior-Bonnet on October 6, 1930. The couple had two children.
She was awarded the Gobert (1958),[2] Broquette-Gonin (1970)[2] and Marcel-Pollitzer (1979)[3] prizes.
Bernardine Melchior-Bonnet died in Boulogne-Billancourt at the age of 88.
Works
- Napoléon et le Pape (1958)
- La conspiration du Général Mallet (1963)
- Dictionnaire de la Révolution et de l'Empire (1965)
- Les Girondins (1970; 1972)
- Charlotte Corday (1972)
- Jérôme Bonaparte ou l'envers de l'épopée (1979)
- La Grande Mademoiselle (1985)
- Napoléon consul et empereur 1799-1815 (1989; 1992)
- Le procès de Louis XVI (1992)
Notes
- ↑ Léger, François (2001). "L’aventure sentimentale de Taine (I)," Commentaire, No 93. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Bernardine Melchior-Bonnet," Académie française.
- ↑ "Lauréats," Fondation Marcel-Pollitzer.
