Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . rsonal tes-timony. He was born in 1798, of humbleparentage; and his childhood was a hard,sad, poverty-stricken one. His father anduncle were printers; and he himself, as soon as he was old enough,was apprenticed to the same trade. But at the same time he beganhis other apprenticeship to the spiritual head of printing,— Litera-ture; and while learning to sat type he made his first efforts atstudy under an old librarian, an ex-schoolmaster. It was proposed tohis family to enter him in the ^^Imprimerie Royale.*^ This his fathernot only
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . rsonal tes-timony. He was born in 1798, of humbleparentage; and his childhood was a hard,sad, poverty-stricken one. His father anduncle were printers; and he himself, as soon as he was old enough,was apprenticed to the same trade. But at the same time he beganhis other apprenticeship to the spiritual head of printing,— Litera-ture; and while learning to sat type he made his first efforts atstudy under an old librarian, an ex-schoolmaster. It was proposed tohis family to enter him in the ^^Imprimerie Royale.*^ This his fathernot only refused, but on the contrary employed his last meagreresources to enter the youth in the Lycee Charlemagne. Here Miche-let began his career at once by hard study, and received his degreein 1821 after passing a brilliant examination. This obtained for hima professorship of history in the College Rollin, where he remaineduntil 1826. His first writings date from this period, and were sketchesand chronological tables of modern history. Although elementary in. Jules Michelet JULES MICHELET 0^^)83 character and purpose, and precise in style, they give evidence of thelatent tendencies, the personal coloring, which became the distinguish-ing force of his later work. In 1827 he was appointed «Maitre deConferences ^> at the Ecole Normale; and in 1831 he wrote an < Intro-duction to Universal History,^ in which his literary originality appearsstill more marked, and his confidence in his own erudition assured. The revolution of 1830, by putting in power his old professors,Guizot and Villemain, secured him the position of ^^ Chef de la Sec-tion Historiques aux Archives ^^ and he became Guizots deputy inthe professorship of history in the University. He also obtained achair of history in the College de France, from which he delivered acourse of lectures, attended by all the students of the day. It wasfrom this chair that he also gained popular acclamation by his attackupon ecclesiast
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