Émile Bourgeois
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French historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Émile Bourgeois was a French historian. Life Born in Paris, Bourgeois was educated at the École Normale Supérieure in rue d'Ulm and later taught at the École supérieure de journalisme de Paris. A specialist in 17th century history, in 1895 Bourgeois was appointed as maître de conférence at an École normale supérieure, but he gave up the post in 1904 to accept a professorship in history at the Sorbonne, where he remained until he retired in 1921. Early in the 20th century he became a contributor to The Cambridge Modern History.
