Jacques Godechot

Jacques Godechot
Born3 January 1907
Lunéville
Died24 August 1989
NationalityFrench
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
Sub-disciplineAtlantic history, French Revolution
InstitutionsUniversity of Toulouse University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès

Jacques Léon Godechot (3 January 1907 – 24 August 1989) was a French historian of the French Revolution and a pioneer of Atlantic history.[1] He was the Dean of the Faculty of Letters and human sciences at the University of Toulouse from 1961 to 1971.[2]

Godechot was born in 1907 in Lunéville.[2] He was appointed to the Faculty of Letters of Toulouse in 1945 and taught there until 1980.[2]

As a frequent and varied contributor to the Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, he acted as "a mediator, an intermediary between readers of the journal and Anglo-Saxon and Italian historiography of the Revolution".[3] His emphasis on the international dimension of the late-18th- and early-19th-century revolutions was crystallized in the concepts of Atlantic history and 'occidental revolution'. In 1955, Godechot collaborated with the Yale historian Robert Roswell Palmer to present a joint paper on 'the problem of Atlantic history' at the 10th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Rome.[4]

  1. ^ Emmet Kennedy, 'Jacques Godechot', in Philip Daileader & Philip Whalen, eds., French Historians 1900-2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France, 306-316
  2. ^ a b c Bonnassie, Pierre; Estèbe, Jean; Fournier, Georges; Pech, Rémy; Taillefer, Michel (1989). "Nécrologie. Jacques Godechot (1907-1989)". Annales du Midi. 101 (188): 489–495.
  3. ^ Bernard Gainot, La contribution de Jacques Godechot aux Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française 353 (July–September 2008), pp.113-128
  4. ^ William O'Reilly, 'Genealogies of Atlantic History', Atlantic Studies 1:1 (2004), 66 — 84