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17-402: Élie Halévy was born in Étretat , Seine-Maritime , where his mother had fled as the German army marched on Paris . His father was the playwright Ludovic Halévy , his brother was the historian Daniel Halévy . His family was of Jewish descent, but his parents were Protestant and he was brought up as a Protestant. Halévy grew up surrounded by musicians, scholars, and politicians. After studying at

34-468: A number of other French departements. The most populous commune is Le Havre ; the prefecture Rouen is the second-most populous. As of 2019, there are 7 communes with more than 20,000 inhabitants: Previously lacking a demonym, the inhabitants of Seine-Maritime (as the department had been renamed in 1955) chose, following a public consultation, to be identified in official documents as "Seinomarins" (males) and "Seinomarines" (females). The president of

51-399: Is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris , France . It is located 15.4 km (9.6 mi) from the center of Paris . Sucy-en-Brie is served by Sucy–Bonneuil station on Paris RER line A . Public primary schools in the commune include: Public secondary schools in the commune include: In addition Lycée Guillaume Budé is in nearby Limeil-Brévannes . The commune owns

68-543: Is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine , and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre . Until 1955 it was named Seine-Inférieure . It had a population of 1,255,633 in 2019. In 1955, the department's name was officially changed to Seine-Maritime. The department can be split into three main areas: The département

85-402: The École Normale Supérieure , he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1901 with the theses The Platonic Theory of Knowledge and The Origins of Philosophical Radicalism . The latter formed the base of his first major study, The Formation of English Philosophical Radicalism (3 vols., 1901-1904). In an article of 1893, Halévy suggested that the great moral question of modern thought was how

102-678: The 20th century especially in relation to the rural population. The first story of the long-running series Valérian and Laureline is set in Seine-Maritime, with the character Laureline originating from the area. Cauchois is the dialect of the Pays de Caux, and is one of the most vibrant forms of the Norman language beyond Cotentinais . Sucy-en-Brie Sucy-en-Brie ( French pronunciation: [sysi ɑ̃ bʁi] , literally Sucy in Brie )

119-663: The Departmental Council is Bertrand Bellanger, elected in 2019. In 1843 the railway from Paris reached the region. The département is connected to the adjacent Eure department via the Tancarville and Pont de Normandie bridge crossings of the Seine . Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert is set in Seine Maritime. The novel La Place by Annie Ernaux largely takes place in Seine-Maritime and describes events and changes that take place in relation to French society in

136-436: The abstract idea of duty could become a concrete aim of society. This question had first attracted him to the utilitarians, and he found at the core of their answer a fundamental contradiction. Utilitarianism, he said, was based on two principles: first, that the science of the legislator must bring together the naturally divergent interests of individuals in society; and, second, that social order comes about spontaneously through

153-515: The belligerent nations first adopted a form of social organisation which may be defined as follows: The whole of post-war Socialism is derived from this war-time organisation far more than from Marxism. The policy which it offers to men who have often been drawn to it by their distaste for and hatred of war is the continuation of war-time organisation in time of peace. That is the paradox of post-war Socialism. In what proved to be his last work (which he did not live to complete), Halévy began to bridge

170-698: The course taken by the human race," he wrote, "the England of the nineteenth century was surely, above all other countries, destined to revolution, both politically and religiously." Neither the British constitution nor the Established Church was strong enough to hold the country together. He found the answer in religious nonconformity: " Methodism was the antidote to Jacobinism ." He did not write his history in chronological sequence, nor did he live to complete it. The second and third volumes of this history (1923) carried

187-559: The gap between 1841 and 1895 with a volume entitled The Age of Peel and Cobden (1841-1852) . A liberal individualist to the last, Halévy died at Sucy-en-Brie on 21 August 1937. His publishers posthumously commissioned R. B. McCallum to contribute a supplementary essay to link this volume with the concluding ones, the whole appearing under the title Victorian Years in 1961. Most of these are online free . Most of these are online free . Seine-Maritime Seine-Maritime ( French pronunciation: [sɛn maʁitim] )

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204-505: The harmony of individual interests. To Halévy, this exemplified two fundamental human attitudes toward the universe: the contemplation of the astronomer and the intervention of the engineer. In 1896, Émile Boutmy invited Halévy to lecture on English political ideas at the newly founded School of Political Science, known today as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) . After 1900, he alternated this course with another, on

221-561: The history of socialism. At the same time he helped found the Revue de métaphysique et de morale . Halévy remained at Sciences Po until his death in 1937. Halévy's teaching led him to undertake annual trips to England, during which he became the intimate friend of many of the most important scholars and political figures of the age. He thoroughly explored the Jeremy Bentham manuscripts at Cambridge for his work on philosophical radicalism and over

238-583: The story up to 1841. Then Halévy, profoundly moved by World War I , turned his attention to the period from 1895 to 1914. The two volumes on this period (published in 1926-1930) were written with considerable detachment, considering the immediacy of the problems he discussed. Together with Célestin Bouglé he would republish a set of Saint-Simonian lectures of the 1830, bundled in the 1924 work Doctrine de Saint-Simon . In lectures of 1929, revised in 1936 (published in 1938; The Era of Tyrannies ), Halévy argued that

255-524: The world war had increased national control over individual activities and opened the way for de facto socialism. In opposition to those who saw socialism as the last step in the French Revolution , he saw it as a new organization of constraint replacing those that the Revolution had destroyed. Wallas translates: The age of tyrannies dates from the month of August, 1914, that is to say from the time when

272-570: The years developed a deep and intensive knowledge of all the sources of 19th-century English history. In 1901 he began to work on the first volume of his masterpiece, the History of the English People in the Nineteenth Century (published from 1913 onwards). In this first volume, he described England in 1815 and sought to explain how England avoided violent social change. "If economic facts explain

289-461: Was created in 1790 as Seine-Inférieure, one of five departements that replaced the former province of Normandy . In 1800 five arrondissements were created within the département, namely Rouen , Le Havre , Dieppe , Neufchatel and Yvetot , although the latter two were disbanded in 1926. On 18 January 1955 the name of the département was changed to Seine-Maritime, in order to provide a more positive-sounding name and in-keeping with changes made in

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