François-Auguste Mignet
François-Auguste Mignet (May 8th 1796 with Aix-en-Provence - March 24th 1884 with Paris) is a writer, historian, journalist and to advise State French.
He was the school-fellow and the friend of Adolphe Thiers and prize winner of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities at the 24 years age. To advise State, he was director of the files to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs under Louis-Philippe.
He worked in particular in journalism, being successively or simultaneously writer with the Constitutionnel , the French Courrier , with the Revue of the Two Worlds , with the Journal of the scientists , and was one of the founders of the National . He was reproduced among the signatories of the protest against the law on the press.
As writer and historian, one owes him in particular a Histoire of the French revolution .
He was member of the Academy of Science morals and political as of his reconstitution in 1832, and in about it 1836 became perpetual secretary. Supported by Thiers, he was elected with the French Academy, on December 29th 1836, and there sat nearly 48 years.
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