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Charles-Hippolyte Pouthas
French historian (1886–1974)
Charles-Hippolyte Pouthas (19 July 1886 – 2 May 1974) was a French historian specialist of political and religious history of contemporary France.
Pouthas was honorary headmaster of the lycée Malherbe de Caen. He was a professor of contemporary history at the lycée Janson-de-Sailly then at the University of Paris and director of the Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine.
His work on the Second Empire participated to a reassessment from the "black legend" spread by the Republican and liberal historiography of the last third of the nineteenth century, and introduced a more moderate reading of the regime.
Among his students were Louis Girard, who succeeded him in the Sorbonne, Louis Chevalier and Rene Remond.
With Jules Isaac and André Alba, he was the author of history textbooks on France.
His research notes are kept at the Archives nationales under the symbols AB/XIX/3754 to AB/XIX/3782.[1]
