Georges Picot

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Georges Marie René Picot (Paris, December 24, 1838 – Allevard, Isère, August 16, 1909) was a French lawyer and historian.

Born in Paris, son of Charles Picot (Orléans, August 4, 1795 - Paris, January 31, 1870) and wife Henriette Bidois (Paris, 1799 - Paris, November 19, 1862), his main work is Histoire des États généraux for which he twice gained the prize of the French Academy in 1873 and 1874. In 1904, he published a biography of Gladstone.

He married in Saint-Bouize on June 19, 1865 with Marie Adélaïde Marthe Bachasson de Montalivet (Paris, October 9, 1844 - Paris, August 2, 1914), daughter of Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet and a great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard (1740 - 1769), and by whom he had seven children, the third of which was the diplomat François Georges-Picot, being the fifth, a daughter, the maternal grandmother of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.^[1]

He died in Allevard-les-Bains.

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• Histoire des États généraux: considérés au point de vue de leur influence sur le gouvernement de la France de 1355 à 1614. – Paris, 1872 (4 Bände) – online: Band 1, Band 2, Band 3, Band 4 (2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage in fünf Bänden. Paris : Hachette, 1888)
• Socialisme et devoir social. – Paris : A. Picard, 1890
• L’Usage de la liberté. – Paris, 1893
• La Lutte contre le socialisme révolutionnaire. – Paris: A. Colin, 1895 Document électronique
• Notice historique sur la vie et les travaux de Jules Simon: lue dans la séance publique annuelle de l’Académie des sciences morales et politiques du 5 décembre 1896. – Paris: Firmin Didot, 1896 Document électronique
• Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire : notice historique. – Paris: Hachette, 1899 Document électronique
• Gladstone. – Paris, 1904

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