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Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or LEROY - BEAULIEU, HENRI JEAN BAPTISTE Anatole (1842-), French publicist, was born at Lisieux, on the 12th of February 1842. In 1866 he published Une troupe de comediens, and afterwards Essai sur la restauration de nos monuments historiques devant fart et devant le budget, which deals particularly with the restoration of the cathedral of Evreux. He visited Russia in order to collect documents on the political and economic organization of the Slav nations, and on his return published in the Revue des deux mondes (1882-1889) a series of articles, which appeared shortly afterwards in book form under the title L'Empire des tsars et les Russes (4th ed., revised in 3 vols., 1897-1898). The work entitled Un empereur, un roi, un pape, une restauration, published in 1879, was an analysis and criticism of the politics of the Second Empire. Un homme d'etat russe (1884) gave the history of the emancipation of the serfs by Alexander II.
Other works are Les Catholiques liberaux, l'eglise et le liberalisme (1890), La Papaute, le socialisme et la democracie (1892), Les Juifs et l'antisemitisme; Israel chez les nations (1893), Les Armeniens et la question armenienne (1896), L'Antisemitisme (1897), Etudes russes et europeennes (1897). These writings, mainly collections of articles and lectures intended for the general public, display enlightened views and wide information. In 1881 Leroy-Beaulieu was elected professor of contemporary history and eastern affairs at the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, becoming director of this institution on the death of Albert Sorel in 1906, and in 1887 he became a member of the Academic des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
Two of Leroy-Beaulieu's works have been translated into English: one as the Empire of the Tsars and the Russians, by Z. A. Regozin (New York, 1893-1896), and another as Papacy, Socialism, Democracy, by B. L. O'Donnell (1892). See W. E. H. Lecky, Historical and Political Essays (1908).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/h/henri-jean-baptiste-anatole-leroy-beaulieu.html. 1910.
