Marcel Marion

Noël-François-Marcel Marion (4 March 1857 – 24 March 1940) was a French historian specializing in the economic and financial history of France.

Biography

Marcel Marion was born in Rennes, the son of Alexandre Marion, secretary to the prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine, and Eulalie Corrard. He studied at the Collège Rodin, then at the Lycée Charlemagne. Marion was a student at the École Normale Supérieure and was awarded the agrégation of history in 1880.

He taught at the high schools of Angoulême, Bordeaux, Reims and Rennes, and then at the Collège Stanislas de Paris. He obtained his doctorate in 1892 and was a lecturer at the Faculty of Letters in Toulouse. In 1896 he became a professor at the Faculty of Letters in Bordeaux, then professor of economic and social facts at the Collège de France from 1912.

He was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, Belles-lettres and Arts of Bordeaux in 1903 and of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1926.

He had married Nicole Drevon, daughter of the polytechnician Alexandre Joseph Drevon, Inspector of Water and Forests, and of Louise-Caroline Benoist de La Grandière. She was the descendant of Joseph-Claude Drevon and Étienne Benoist de La Grandière, as well as the sister of Pierre Drevon, Inspector General of Finances, head of the General Inspectorate of Finances and administrator of the General Company for the Navigation of the Rhine. He is the grandfather of General Marcel Marion (1924–2009).

A Catholic, he was conservative in his political views, although he was an advocate of liberal orthodoxy in fiscal matters in the interwar period.

Works

• Machault d'Arnouville, étude sur l'histoire du contrôle général des finances de 1749 à 1754 (1891)
• Une Famine en Guyenne (1747-1748) (1891)
• La Bretagne et le duc d'Aiguillon, 1753-1770 (1898; awarded the Prix Thérouanne by the Académie française in 1899)
• L'Impôt sur le revenu au XVIIIe siècle, principalement en Guyenne (1901; awarded the Prix Halphen by the Académie française)
• État des classes rurales au XVIIIe siècle dans la généralité de Bordeaux (1902)
• Le Garde des sceaux Lamoignon et la réforme judiciaire de 1788 (1905; awarded the Prix Thérouanne by the Académie française in 1906)
• La Vente des biens nationaux pendant la Révolution, avec étude spéciale des ventes dans le département de la Gironde et du Cher (1908)
• Les Impôts directs sous l'Ancien Régime, principalement au XVIIIe siècle (1910)
• Histoire financière de la France depuis 1715 (1914–1931; 6 volumes)
• Dictionnaire des institutions de la France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (1923; 1999)
• Ce qu'il faut connaître des crises financières de notre histoire (1926)
• Histoire du Berry et du Bourbonnais (1933)
• Le Brigandage pendant la Révolution (1934)
• Petite Histoire du second cartel (1935)

Selected publications

• "Les Parents d'Émigrés pendant la Révolution," Revue des Questions Historiques, Vol. LXXXVI (1909), pp. 154–95.
• "Les Partages de Présuccession," Revue des Questions Historiques, Vol. LXXXVI (1909), pp. 522–58.

References

• Charle, Christophe; Eva Telkès (1988). "Marion (Noël, François, Marcel)." In: Les Professeurs du Collège de France: Dictionnaire Bibliographique (1901-1939). Paris: Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique, pp. 154–56.

External links

• Works by Marcel Marion at Gallica
• Works by Marcel Marion at Persée