Jacques Godechot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacques Godechot

French historian

Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1907

Place of Birth: Lunéville, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 24-Aug-1989

Profession: historian of the modern age, professeur des universités

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Jacques Léon Godechot (3 January 1907 – 24 August 1989) was a French historian of the French revolution, and a pioneer of Atlantic history.As a frequent and varied contributor to the Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, he acted as "a mediator, an intermediary between readers of the journal and Anglo-Saxon and Italian historiography of the Revolution".
His emphasis on the international dimension of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century revolutions was crystallized in the concepts of Atlantic history and 'occidental revolution'.
In 1955 Godechot collaborated with the Yale historian Robert Roswell Palmer to present a joint paper on 'the problem of Atlantic history' at the 10th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Rome.