Émile Bourgeois

Émile Bourgeois (July 24, 1857–August 25, 1934) was a French historian born in Paris who studied at the École normale supérieure. He began his academic career in Lyon and later taught diplomatic history at the École libre des sciences politiques, now Sciences Po.

In 1895, Bourgeois became a lecturer at the École normale supérieure. He moved to the Sorbonne in 1904 as a professor of history, where he taught political and diplomatic history of the modern era until his retirement. He was also involved in the Société d’histoire moderne and contributed to The Cambridge Modern History.

Bourgeois published extensively, including works on French foreign policy, seventeenth-century Europe, and the sources of French history. He was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1920 and remained associated with teaching at Sciences Po until his death in Versailles.