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Jules Michelet’s final work, History of the 19th Century, remains his least known. He completed only the first section, focusing on the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. However, this account is neither the most comprehensive nor the most engaging history of the French Emperor. Michelet’s profound and unrelenting hatred for Napoleon—whom he viewed as a usurper and a tyrant—prevented him from fully grappling with the paradoxical nature of this final chapter of the French Revolution. For Michelet, Napoleon and the advent of the steam engine represented two interconnected facets of a new world emerging from the ruins of the Enlightenment. Together, they marked the dawn of a new Iron Age—an era defined by industrial and political transformations that fundamentally reshaped Europe and the broader world.

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Jules Michelet, Napoleon and the History of the Nineteenth Century

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    2025年

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  • Patrice Gueniffey

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Jules Michelet’s final work, History of the 19th Century, remains his least known. He completed only the first section, focusing on the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. However, this account is neither the most comprehensive nor the most engaging history of the French Emperor. Michelet’s profound and unrelenting hatred for Napoleon—whom he viewed as a usurper and a tyrant—prevented him from fully grappling with the paradoxical nature of this final chapter of the French Revolution. For Michelet, Napoleon and the advent of the steam engine represented two interconnected facets of a new world emerging from the ruins of the Enlightenment. Together, they marked the dawn of a new Iron Age—an era defined by industrial and political transformations that fundamentally reshaped Europe and the broader world.