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| Birth: | 21st August, 1798 |
| Death: | 9th February, 1874 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Historian |
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Jules Michelet was a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions. In his 1855 work, Histoire de France, Jules Michelet was the first historian to use and define the word Renaissance, as a period in Europe's cultural history that represented a drastic break from the Middle Ages, creating a modern understanding of humanity and its place in the world.
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