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Adolphe Thiers, (born April 18, 1797, Marseille—died Sept. 3, 1877, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris), French statesman, journalist, and historian, a founder and the first president (1871–73) of the Third Republic.

Adolphe Thiers, né le 15 avril 1797 ( 26 germinal an V) à Marseille et mort le 3 septembre 1877 à Saint-Germain-en-Laye, est un , journaliste, historien et homme d'État français . Arrivé à Paris à 24 ans, ambitieux et sans fortune — il aurait servi de modèle à Balzac pour le personnage de Rastignac —, journaliste anticlérical et ...

For the full article, see Adolphe Thiers . Adolphe Thiers, (born April 18, 1797, Marseille, France—died Sept. 3, 1877, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris), French politician and historian. He went to Paris in 1821 as a journalist and cofounded the opposition newspaper National in 1830.

The French journalist, historian, and statesman Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877) was the most gifted of the literary statesmen who were an important feature of 19th-century French political life. Born at Marseilles on April 16, 1797, Adolphe Thiers attended the local lycée and studied law at Aix.

Adolphe Thiers. Adolph Thiers' Histoire de la Révolution française (published 1823-27) was the first major work of the liberal tradition of French historiography. The complete work of ten volumes sold ten thousand sets, and was particularly popular in liberal circles and among younger Parisians.

Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (/ t i ˈ ɛər / tee-AIR, French: [maʁi ʒozɛf lwi adɔlf tjɛʁ]; 15 April 1797 – 3 September 1877) was a French politician and historian. He was the second elected President of France , and the first President of the French Third Republic .

Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France and first President of the French Third Republic. Thiers was a key figure in the July Revolution of 1830, which overthrew King Charles X in favor of the more liberal King Louis Philippe, and the French Revolution of 1848, which ...

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