Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue
Deceased Person
1801 – 1872
Who was Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue?
Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue was a French historian and biographer.
He was born in Marseille, France. At the age of twenty he went to Paris to study law, but soon switched to journalism. He became editor of the Quotidienne, and was afterwards connected, either as editor or leading contributor, with the Temps, the Messager des Chambres, the Revolution de 1848 and other papers.
During the ascendancy of the House of Bourbon, he held a post in the foreign office, to which is due the royalism of some of his newspaper articles. Indeed all Capefigue's works are influenced by his legitimist politics; he believed in the Divine Right of Kings and non-resistance, and found polite words even for the profligacy of Louis XV and the worthlessness of his mistresses.
He wrote biographies of Catherine de' Medici and Marie de Medici, Anne of Austria, Maria Theresa of Austria, Catherine II of Russia, Elizabeth I of England, Diana of Poitiers and Agnès Sorel--for he delighted in passing from "queens of the right hand" to "queens of the left."
His historical works, besides histories of the Jews from the fall of the Maccabees to the author's time, of the first four centuries of the Christian church, and of European diplomatists, extend over the whole range of French history. He died at Paris.
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- Born
- 1801
- Also known as
- Jean-Baptiste Honore Raymond Capefigue
- Capefigue
- Nationality
- France
- Died
- Dec 1, 1872
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on July 23, 2013
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