Henri Loyrette

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Vile or Visionary?: 11 Art Controversies of the Last Four Centuries

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5 Art Restorations Gone Wrong

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Born	May 31, 1952 (age 72) • Neuilly-sur-Seine • France

Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889

Hippolyte Taine

French critic and historian

Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon

French artist

Philip Hendy

British art historian and curator

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

French historian and political writer

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

French biologist

Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People

Eugène Delacroix

French artist

Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons

Alphonse de Lamartine

French poet, historian, and statesman

Fernand Braudel

French historian and educator

Adolphe Thiers

Adolphe Thiers

French statesman and historian

Marc Bloch

French historian

Lucien Paul Victor Febvre

French historian

Jules Michelet, detail of an oil painting by Thomas Couture; in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris.

Jules Michelet

French historian

François Guizot

François Guizot

French politician and historian

Barnave, Antoine

Antoine Barnave

French politician

Hilaire Belloc

British author

Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Edgar Quinet

French historian and poet

Jacques-Auguste de Thou

French statesman and historian

Ollivier, photograph by P. Petit; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Émile Ollivier

French statesman

Aubigné, detail of an oil painting by Bartholomaus Sarburgh, 1622; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switz.

Théodore-Agrippa d’ Aubigné

French soldier and author

Raymond Aron

French sociologist