📙 François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787-1874) was a French historian, orator, and a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848. Afterward, he turned to literature, including this 8 volume work, Histoire de France racontée à mes petits enfants, which he completed through 1789, and was continued to 1870 by his daughter Madame Guizot de Witt from her father's notes.