Jean Joseph François Poujoulat
Jean Joseph François Poujoulat (28 January 1808 – 5 January 1880), was a French historian, politician and political journalist.
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Biography
Jean Joseph François Poujoulat was born at the commune of La Fare-les-Oliviers, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. Brother of Baptistin Poujoulat, he studied in Aix-en-Provence before moving to Paris.
In 1828, he was employed by Joseph-François Michaud to edit the Bibliothèque des Croisades. In 1830, he accompanied him on his trip to Greece and Palestine but returned alone via Syria. In May 1831, they published together the exchange of their letters in Correspondance d'Orient (7 volumes). His brother Baptistin also made a trip to the Orient from 1836 and sent letters to him and to Michaud.
Poujoulat was a prolific author. His Histoire de Jérusalem, a religious and philosophical study, was crowned by the French Academy in 1840–42; his Histoire de St. Augustin in 1844 was similarly praised.
A legitimist candidate in June 1848, he was elected deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône to the Constituent Assembly, and re-elected in 1849 until 1851. On April 4, 1856, he endorsed the founding by Augustin-Louis Cauchy and Charles Lenormant of L'Œuvre des Écoles d'Orient, better known today as L'Œuvre d'Orient. He even accepted to be a member of its first General Council on the 25th of the same year. He was opposed to the irregular advent of Louis-Philippe to the throne in 1830, he made himself felt in politics through contributions to the L'Union Monarchique. He published an article on his visit to the Count of Chambord in exile in Wiesbaden where he thought he was authorized to write that the latter was opposed to the recourse to the people.
He also contributed to the Revue des deux Mondes, the Musée des familles and many other periodicals.
Works
- Toscane et Rome (1839)
- Histoire de la Révolution française (1840–1842)
- Histoire de Saint Augustin (1844)
- La Droite et sa Mission (1849)
- La France et la Russie à Constantinople: la question des lieux saints (1853)
- Le Cardinal Maury, sa Vie, ses œuvres (1855)
- Le Père de Ravignan (1859)
References
- "Jean-Joseph-François Poujoulat." In: Adolphe Robert & Gaston Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires français (1889-1891)
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