Albert Vandal

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Albert Vandal.

Albert Count Vandal (7 July 1853, Paris – 30 August 1910, Paris) was a French historian, born in Paris. He wrote:

  • En karriole à travers la Suède et la Norvège (1876)
  • Louis XV et Elizabeth de Russie (1882)
  • Ambassade française en Orient sous Louis XV (1887)
  • Napoléon et Alexandre Ier (three volumes, 1894-97), awarded the Vaubert prize
  • Les voyages du Marquis de Nointel (1900)
  • L'avènement de Bonaparte (1902)

Vandal was elected to the Académie française in 1897, and he succeeded his teacher and friend, Albert Sorel as professor at the school of political science.

External links[edit]

  • (in French) Short biography
  • Works by Albert Vandal at Project Gutenberg
  • Works by or about Albert Vandal at Internet Archive
  • Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Albert Vandal" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.