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William of Tyre
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Born c.1130 • Syria
Died September 29, 1186 • Rome • Italy
Title / Office chancellor (1174-1175), kingdom of Jerusalem
Subjects Of Study Palestine • kingdom of Jerusalem
Albert of Aix
Christian historian
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian and political writer
Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889
Hippolyte Taine
French critic and historian
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
Henri Loyrette
French arts administrator 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
Paul Mus
French scholar
Peter Bartholomew
Peter Bartholomew
French pilgrim

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