"He was...an intellectual lightweight. This is apparent in his voluminous histories of the Revolution, Consulate and Empire. He boasted that his books were the sensation of his century. Perhaps, but they are no longer read in our own. Thiers offered a well written, sometimes dramatic, narrative undistinguished by its depth of analysis. Intellectual or socio-economic influences upon history are absent from his work. His originality lay with the fact that he was the first to write of France's recent past in relatively dispassionate terms, not an easy task in his day, although he was unable to stifle his great admiration for Napoleon."
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Douglas Porch, 'Reviewed Work: Thiers 1797-1877. A Political Life by J. P. T. Bury and R. P. Tombs', The Historical Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2 (June 1987), p. 500
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Adolphe Thiers
1797 – 1877
französischer Politiker und Historiker
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