Louis Adolphe Thiers
1797–1877
French statesman and historian. Author of the ten-volume Histoire de la révolution française (1823–7). Leader of the French government after the fall of Napoleon III in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870; president of France, 1871–3.
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EB.
Bibliography
EB: The Encyclopædia Britannica. A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11.
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