The New International Encyclopædia/Rambaud, Alfred Nicolas

RAMBAUD, rän′bō̇′, Alfred Nicolas (1842—). A French historian, born at Besançon. He was a pupil of the Ecole Normale, and after receiving his degree in 1870 traveled in Russia, and taught history at Caen and Nancy (1871-79). He was chief of a department in the Ministry of Public Instruction in Ferry's Cabinet in 1879-81, and held the portfolio of Public Instruction in the Méline Cabinet in 1896-98. He became professor of contemporary history at the Sorbonne in 1883, and was elected to the Academy of Moral Sciences in 1897. His works include: La domination française en Allemagne, Les Français sur le Rhin 1792-1800 (1873); La Russie épique (1876); Histoire dc la Russie (1878, translated by Lang as A History of Russia, 1879); Histoire de la civilisation française (1887); Histoire de la civilisation contemporaine en France and Histoire de la Revolution française, 1789-1799 (1895). With Lavisse he directed the publication of the Histoire genérale du IVme siècle à nos jours (1893-96).