Jules Michelet

Then came La Mer (1861) a return to the natural history class which considering the powers of the writer and the attraction of the subject is perhaps a little disappointing. Michelet's Origines du droit français cherchées dans les symboles et les formules du droit universel was edited by Émile Faguet in 1890 and went into a second edition in 1900. Minor books
The coup d'état lost Michelet his place in the Record Office since he refused to take the oaths to the empire.

Jules Michelet (21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions. In his 1855 work Histoire de France (History of France) Jules Michelet was the first historian to use and define the word Renaissance (meaning "Re-birth" in French language) as a period in Europe's cultural history that represented a break from the Middle Ages creating a modern understanding of humanity and its place in the world.