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ALI, JOHANNAH V.

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PROF. CECILIA B. TANGIAN, PhD.

PHILOSOPHY OF JULES MICHELET

Jules Michelet, one of the greatest French historians and a great historian of all times. He
came from a humble origin. His father, Jean-Francois Furcy Michelet was a trade printer and
married to his older wife, Angelique-Constance Millet. Jules Michelet want to emphasize his
own root about the working population in Frances great city. According to him it was like a
blade of grass, without sun, between two cobblestone of Paris. His country is very important to
him since he spent most of his entire life in France, his triumphs and failures.

Michelet has a deep regards to his parents as he saw them struggling the poor living they
had when their family business brink to disaster. He said that he cant even showed to his mother
the success he got as a lecturer of a prestigious college in France and a researcher of his
generation. He appreciated so much the hardship, efforts and love that was given by his parents
to him the reason why the majority of his works tackles about the society or the people who
belong to working class during the era of French aristocrats.

Some of his works are about religion because according to him, he was not raised in a
religious or right-wing atmosphere. Example of his works was the Satanism and Witchcraft
and it was adopted by a Japanese animation studio and released an animated movie The
Belladonna of sadness or Kanashimi no Beladonna. It was a concept of having a rebellion
against the villages baron who easily abused a peasant woman and had a compact with the devil
to gain power and be able to revenge her nightmare she tasted in the hand of the baron. It
represents how Michelet wants to reveal the wrong doings of French aristocrats and unequal
treatment of people because of the social status through his books. His experiences in France
give him an idea to narrate the events of French Revolution. 1

1 https://www.openbookpublishers.com/shopimages/resources/3-
Gossman_Michelet_Scribner-European%20Writers.pdf

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