Michel Antoine (28 September 1925, Saarbrücken – 20 February 2015, Paris) was a French, modernist historian.
Michel Antoine | |
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Born | |
Died | 20 February 2015 | (aged 89)
Nationality | French |
Education | École Nationale des Chartes |
Occupation | Historian |
A specialist of the state apparatus and the political civilization of the eighteenth century, Antoine was an archivist and paleographer, curator at the Archives nationales, research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and professor at the University of Caen, then director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études from 1987.