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Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu
1842–1912
A leading French historian and essayist, Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu helped introduce Russian and Eastern European affairs to a wider Western audience. His writing combined political insight, religious questions, and lively observations drawn from travel and research.
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L'antisémitisme
by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu
About the author
Born in Lisieux in 1842, Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu became known as a historian, essayist, publicist, and lecturer. After beginning with historical and literary works, he turned to political and social studies, writing on the Second French Empire, religious liberty, socialism, antisemitism, and the Armenian question.
His most influential work was L’Empire des tsars et les Russes, a major study of Russia based partly on his travels and research into the political, economic, and religious life of the Russian Empire. He also wrote Un homme d’État russe, about Alexander II and the emancipation of the serfs, and published widely in the Revue des deux mondes.
Leroy-Beaulieu taught contemporary history and Eastern affairs at the École libre des sciences politiques, later becoming its director from 1906 until his death in Paris in 1912. He was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1887 and is remembered as an important early promoter of Russian and Slavic studies in France.