Camille Jullian

Camille Jullian , born with Marseilles the March 15th 1859 and died in Paris the December 12th 1933, is a historian, philologist and epigraph French. Elected with the Collège de France in 1905, it creates the pulpit of the National antiquities there. He is the author of monumental a Histoire of Gaulle , published between 1907 and 1928, first scientific approach of the Gaulle which remains a reference impossible to circumvent.

A career of researcher and teacher

Of Cevennes origin , foster brother of Gaston Doumergue, future President of the French Republic between 1924 and 1931, it passes its childhood to Nimes and continues its secondary studies in Marseilles.

Former student of the National university, it follows there the courses of Vidal of Blache and Fustel de Coulanges, of which it publishes work on a purely posthumous basis. He binds to it friendship with Henri Bergson.

In 1880, it is received first with aggregation of History, then share to study in Germany with the Université of Berlin, near the professor Mommsen, the ancient epigraphy, science of the inscriptions, then with the French École of Rome (1880-1882).

The historian of Bordeaux

In 1883 it obtained its doctorate with a thesis on the political transformations in Roman imperial Italy. It is named professor at the university of Bordeaux, it wrote several monographs on the city and the area.

Small, timid, it had the weak voice and the very short-sighted eyes, but it could captivate its audiences. All its life, it carried out a labor crushing and exemplary.

It is by chance of the assignments that this Marseillais came to Bordeaux. But it was caught affection for this city; it there made a great part of its career and became the largest historian of Bordeaux. It there Maria in 1890 with Madeleine Azam, girl of Doctor Eugene Azam, professor at the university of Bordeaux and wanted to be buried there not far from the college on the “Judaïque mount”, in the Protestant cemetery. He is the grandfather of the author and draftsman Philippe Jullian (1919-1977), born Philippe Simounet.

The publication in 1895 of the History of Bordeaux is the first great scientific and synthetic work on the city.

The historian of Gaulle

But its main object of study and research was to be Gaulle, to which it devoted his gigantic Histoire of Gaulle . Elected official professor with the Collège de France in 1905, holder of the pulpit of the National antiquities, Camille Jullian renewed the ancient history of Gaulle considerably.

It is him which, practically, revealed scientifically in France Vercingétorix, the national hero in a work published into 1901 which had an immense repercussion.

A liberal, national and moral historian

Literary spirit, great writer, Camille Jullian, was however a free of spirit, honest and rigorous historian. Marked like all its generation by the French defeat of 1870, charged with preparing the treaty of Versailles in 1919, him which died the year of the advent of Adolf Hitler in Germany, always wanted to be with the service of the nation and the fatherland, of today like that of formerly.

Marked by Protestantism, he always considered that the history was “moral”, that it was “the obedience of the truth”. “With the service of the history” all its life, it published under this title its last work, the lessons of opening which it pronounced at the Collège de France of 1905 to 1930; like shows it some following lines (almost its will) of the lesson of December 3rd, 1924 on the value of the history: “The history is a trade of valiancy and dignity… The history teaches initially the recognition… History, then, sign justice… The history teaches finally honesty… The history is a training of duties”.

He is elected member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1908 and of the French Academy in 1924.

Struck of a stroke in 1930, he died three years later, at the sixty fourteen years age.

History of Gaulle

With its eight volumes published between 1907 and 1921, of which the four first before 1914, Camille Jullian wrote the first true complete work on Gaulle, who still refers in many fields.

Founder of the historical research on Gaulle with his pulpit with the college of France; there were three successors: Albert Attic (of 1935 to 1948), Paul-Marie Duval (of 1964 to 1982) which was placed more or less under its patronage while giving to their pulpits different headings and finally Christian Goudineau, which, since 1984 took again the same heading exactly, paying an explicit homage to Camille Jullian.

Other works of Camille Jullian

On Bordeaux and the Gironde

Study of epigraphy of Bordeaux. The Of Bordeaux one in the Roman army. Notes concerning the inscriptions of Bordeaux extracted papers of Mr. de Lamontagne 1884
antiquities of Bordeaux (Re-examined archaeological) 1885
Roman Inscriptions of Bordeaux 1887-1890
Ausone and Bordeaux. Studies over last times of Gaulle Roman 1893
History of Bordeaux from the origins in 1895 1895

Work on Gaulle

Of protectoribus and domesticis augustorum 1883
History of the political institutions of old France, of Fustel de Coulanges (posthumous edition of works) 1890
Gallia, summary table of Gaulle under the Roman domination, Hatchet, 1892
Frejus Roman 1886
Notes of epigraphy 1886
political transformations of Italy under the Roman Emperors, 43 av. J. - C. - 330 after J. - C. 1884
Extracted the historians of the 19th century, published, annotated and preceded by an introduction on the French history 1897
Inscriptiones Galliae narbonensis Latinae (LASH XII), in collaboration 1899
Vercingétorix 1900
the Roman policy in Provence (218-59 before our era) 1901
Research on the religion gauloise1903
Plea for prehistory 1907
former gods of the Occident 1913
Paris of the Romans. Arenas. The Thermal baths 1924
History of Gaulle, réed Hatchet, coll References, 1993,1270 pages,
With the threshold of our history. Lessons made at the Collège de France, 1905-1930, 3 vol. 1930-1931

Works of the patriot

1915 the Gallic Rhine: the French Rhine
1918 Pas de peace with Hohenzollern. With a friend of the face
1919 the war for the fatherland
1920 Let us like France, conferences: 1914-1919
1922 Of Gaulle in France. Our historical origins

Homages to Camille Jullian

Many streets, college and colleges bear its name:

Created in 1883, the college of young girls of Bordeaux says Barada college, then Mondenard where the historian had given some courses in the preparatory classes to the National university of Sevres, was baptized in 1955, Camille-Jullian college.
In 1938, the town of Bordeaux raised in Camille Jullian, on the place which bears its name, a small made monument of Gallo-Roman vestiges.
the Center Camille Jullian, component of the Mediterranean House of the Social sciences (MMSH), is a Laboratory of CNRS and university from Provence, in Aix-en-Provence. Named thus since 1994, the activities of the Camille-Jullian Center are centered on the archeology and the history of the South-east of France and the Mediterranean Occident.

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