Abstract: Based on the lectures Michelet gave at the Collège de France in 1844, this text, published in 1846, bears witness to his passion for the people. In it, he traces a history of France that is inextricably interwoven with the history of the people. The story of history is told through the study of social types and the realities of everyday life.
Keyword: Nineteenth-century literature, society, history of France, peasantry, essay, historical investigation, historiography, social history, Middle Ages, nineteenth-century
