Family tree of François GUIZOT
French Minister and Secretary of state (before French Fifth Republic)
Born François Pierre Guillaume GUIZOT
French historian, orator, and statesman
Born on October 4, 1787 in Nimes , France
Died on September 12, 1874 in Saint-Ouen-le-Pin , France
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Madame Guizot had great influence over Francois Guizot and was part of his circle of friends. In the days of his exile in 1848 she followed him to London, and there at a very advanced age died and was buried at Kensal Green.
... Guizot was born at Nîmes to a bourgeois Protestant family. On 8 April 1794, when François Guizot was 7, his father was executed on the scaffold at Nîmes during the Reign of Terror. From then on, the boy's mother was completely responsible for his upbringing.
Madame Guizot had great influence over Francois Guizot and was part of his circle of friends. In the days of his exile in 1848 she followed him to London, and there at a very advanced age died and was buried at Kensal Green.
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