LAVISSE/RAMBAUD

HISTOIRE GENERALE DU IVeme SIECLE A NOS JOURS

Ernest LAVISSE (Membre de l’Academie Française, Professeur a la Faculte des lettres de Paris.)

Alfred RAMBAUD (Professor d’histoire moderne et contemporaine a la Faculte des Lettres de Paris.)

1893-1901

Complete Set of 12 Volumes

Lavisse, Ernest; Rambaud, Alfred. General History from the 4th century to the present day.

Complete set in 12 volumes.

Paris, Armand Colin & Cie publisher. 1893-1901. 805pp.; 987pp.; 984pp.; 999pp.; 981pp.; 982pp.; 1051pp.; 992pp.; 1011pp.; 1016pp.; 1014pp.; 934pp.. Small in-4. Beige half-sheepskin bindings with five-raised spine enhanced with gilded and dotted fillets with title and volume number labels in red and black morocco. Double cold fillet on the boards at the edge of the cartons. Paul Brodard Printing Company.

First edition. Lovely set in uniform binding in very good general condition. Some scattered rubbing and foxing. Back very slightly insolated.

Monumental work of synthesis, still fundamental. This work, published here for the first time in 1893, is the result of a collaboration between two of the greatest historians of their time. It takes place in a particular context, that of the Third Republic, where the teaching of history is considered an essential tool for forging national and republican identity. This period is marked by a strong positivist current, which advocates a scientific, objective and rational history. Lavisse and Rambaud, as leading figures of this school, thus undertook to retrace the history of France and the world, from the 4th century to their time, in an approach that was both rigorous and educational.

This work is divided as follows: The Origins (395-1095), Feudal Europe The Crusades (1095-1270), Formation of the Great States (1270-1492), Renaissance and Reform The New Worlds 1492-1559, Louis XIV 1643- 1715, The Wars of Religion 1559-1648, The 18th Century 1715-1788, The French Revolution 1789-1799, Napoleon 1800-1815, Constitutional monarchies 1815-1847, Revolutions and National Wars 1848-1870, and The Contemporary world 1870- 1900.

Alfred Nicolas Rambaud is a French historian and politician. Historian specializing in France, the Byzantine Empire and Russia, his work was highly appreciated at the end of the 19th century.

Beautiful complete set in uniform binding and first edition of this scholarly work.