1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/De la Gorce, Pierre

DE LA GORGE, PIERRE (1846–), French historian, was born at Vannes June 29 1846. He devoted himself to the study in particular of the history of the 19th century, and produced various works of much learning, the chief being Histoire de la Seconde République Française (1887), Histoire du Second Empire (1896–1905) and Histoire religieuse de la Révolution (1909). He was in 1914 elected a member of the French Academy, and in 1918 published a monograph, Deux Frères: Andre et Pierre de Gailhard-Bancal.