Gilles Heuré traces a lifelong debt to historian Jules Michelet
In a new essay blending literary history and memoir, the writer recounts how a childhood discovery of Michelet, by way of Alexandre Dumas, shaped his own path into history.
Gilles Heuré's new book, "Ma vie avec Jules Michelet", retraces a personal and intellectual debt to the nineteenth-century historian, according to Télérama. The essay describes a reading trail that began with Alexandre Dumas's novels before leading, through his parents, to the work of Michelet — an encounter that, Heuré writes, set him on the path toward history and changed the course of his own life.
Télérama describes the book as a rich study "joliment teintée d'autobiographie" — nicely tinged with autobiography — mixing close attention to Michelet's writing with the author's own recollections of how he came to it.
No further detail on the book's structure, length or publisher appears in the available material.
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