François-Tommy Perrens
François-Tommy Perrens (20 September 1822 – 2 February 1901) was a French historian and academic, best known for his work on the history of Italy.
Biography
François-Tommy Perrens was born in Bordeaux. A pupil at the Lycée de Bordeaux and then at the École Normale Supérieure in 1843, he was agrégé de grammaire and Doctor of Letters. He taught at the lycées in Bourges, Lyon and Montpellier, then at the Lycée Bonaparte in Paris and at the École polytechnique from 1862. He was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1887. He was appointed Honorary General Inspector of Public Education in 1891.
His major work is a monumental Histoire de Florence, published in six volumes between 1877 and 1883. Several of his other works were awarded prizes by the Académie française, and his study of L'Église et l'État en France sous le règne de Henri IV et la régence de Marie de Médicis won the Grand prix Gobert in 1873. He also published numerous articles and memoirs, notably in the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques.
François-Tommy Perrens was a correspondent of the Royal Academy of Turin, a Knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus and a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1870.
He died in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.
Works
- Jérôme Savonarole, sa vie, ses prédications, ses écrits, d'après les documents originaux et avec des pièces justificatives en grande partie inédites (1853; 2 volumes)
- Deux ans de révolution en Italie (1848-1849) (1857)
- Étienne Marcel et le gouvernement de la bourgeoisie au quatorzième siècle: 1356-1358 (1860)
- Histoire de la littérature italienne (1868)
- Les Mariages espagnols sous le règne de Henri IV et la régence de Marie de Médicis (1602-1615) (1869; awarded the Halphen Prize by the French Academy)
- L'Église et l'État en France sous le règne de Henri IV et la régence de Marie de Médicis (1872; 2 volumes)
- La Démocratie en France au Moyen Âge: histoire des tendances démocratiques dans les populations urbaines au xive et au xve siècle (1873; 2 volumes)
- Histoire de Florence (1877–1883; 6 volumes)
- La Civilisation florentine du xiiie au xvie siècle (1893)
- Les Libertins en France au xviie siècle (1896)
- Histoire sommaire de la littérature française au xixe siècle (1898)
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- 1822 births
- 1901 deaths
- 19th-century French historians
- Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- École Polytechnique faculty
- French literary historians
- French medievalists
- Historians of Italy
- Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
- Lycée Condorcet teachers
- Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
- Writers from Bordeaux
