Georges Picot

Georges Marie René Picot (French: [piko]; December 24, 1838 – August 16, 1909) was a French lawyer and historian.

Born in Paris, son of Charles Picot (Orléans, August 4, 1795 – Paris, January 31, 1870) and his wife Henriette Bidois (Paris, 1799 – Paris, November 19, 1862), his main work is Histoire des États généraux for which he twice gained the prize of the French Academy in 1873 and 1874. In 1904, his biography of Gladstone was published.

He married in Saint-Bouize on June 19, 1865 with Marie Adélaïde Marthe Bachasson de Montalivet (Paris, October 9, 1844 – Paris, August 2, 1914), daughter of Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet and a great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard (1740–1769), and by whom he had seven children, the third of which was the diplomat François Georges-Picot, and the fifth, a daughter, was the maternal grandmother of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

He died in Allevard-les-Bains.

Works

• Histoire des États généraux: considérés au point de vue de leur influence sur le gouvernement de la France de 1355 à 1614. – Paris, 1872 (4 vols.) – online: Band 1, Tom. 2, Tom. 3, Tom. 4 (2me édition, revue et augmentée en cinq volumes. Paris: Hachette, 1888)
• Socialisme et devoir social. – Paris : A. Picard, 1890
• L’Usage de la liberté. – Paris, 1893
• La Lutte contre le socialisme révolutionnaire. – Paris: A. Colin, 1895 Document électronique
• Notice historique sur la vie et les travaux de Jules Simon: lue dans la séance publique annuelle de l’Académie des sciences morales et politiques du 5 décembre 1896. – Paris: Firmin Didot, 1896 Document électronique
• Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire : notice historique. – Paris: Hachette, 1899 Document électronique
• Gladstone. – Paris, 1904