Michel Antoine Explained

Michel Antoine
Birth Date:28 September 1925
Birth Place:Saarbrücken, Territory of the Saar Basin
Death Place:Paris, France
Nationality:French
Education:École Nationale des Chartes
Occupation:Historian

Michel Antoine (28 September 1925, Saarbrücken – 20 February 2015, Paris), former professor at the University of Caen, research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, and curator at the Archives nationales, was a noted biographer of Louis XV, and a French historian of the Modern period, specialising in France's role in European political civilisation in the eighteenth century.

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Antoine was a specialist of the French state apparatus and of French and related European political civilization in the eighteenth century. He was an archivist and paleographer, with professional positions as curator at the Archives nationales, research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, and professor at the University of Caen, and from 1987, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études.

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