Note 670 — BOOK XII[500]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry (1795-1856), a noted French historian. In 1826, he became completely broken down in health, and was left blind and paralyzed. The remainder of his work was done through the medium of secretaries. With their help he published his Dix ans d'études historiques (1834), his Récits des temps mérovingiens (1840), and an Essai sur l'histoire de la formation et du progrès du tiers-état ( 1853). His famous Histoire de la conquête de l'Angleterre par les Normands had been published in 1825.—T.