14 Facts About Georges Lacour-Gayet

Georges Lacour-Gayet was a French historian who taught at the Ecole Navale and the Ecole Polytechnique.

Georges Lacour-Gayet's master work was a four-volume biography of Talleyrand.

Georges Lacour-Gayet attended the Ecole normale superieure at rue d'Ulm, Paris.

Georges Lacour-Gayet's schoolmates included the future geographers Bertrand Auerbach, Marcel Dubois and Paul Dupuy, and the future historians Salomon Reinach and Gustave Lanson.

Georges Lacour-Gayet gave a course of lectures at the Ecole Superieure de Marine that formed the bases for his 1905 La marine militaire de France sous le regne de Louis XVI.

Georges Lacour-Gayet was a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

Georges Lacour-Gayet was a member of the Institut Francais, Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques and the Academie de Marine.

Georges Lacour-Gayet was a member of the Societe de l'histoire de France from 1924, and became a member of the society's council that year.

Georges Lacour-Gayet later had another child, a future historian and journalist Georgette Elgey, by his relationship with Madeleine Leon, who belonged to the Jewish upper-class but later converted to Catholicism; she was the great-granddaughter of Michel Levy, France's first Jewish general.

Georges Lacour-Gayet died in Paris on 8 December 1935 at the age of 79.

Georges Lacour-Gayet described the colonial competition between France and Britain in the century before 1815 as the "Second Hundred Years War".

Georges Lacour-Gayet claimed that the efforts of the Academie de Marine prepared the French navy for its "victories in the American War".

Georges Lacour-Gayet saw the failure of France to invade Britain when they had the chance in 1779 as a great lost opportunity.

Georges Lacour-Gayet presented the work at the Romanian Academy and said the "savant work" of "truth and justice", had exposed the practices of Bulgarisation.