Post by Madalina Dobraca People & Culture

“France is the daughter of freedom. In human progress, the essential part, the main force, is called man. Man is his own Prometheus.”   – Jules Michelet, French historian born #OnThisDay (August 21) in 1798, author of the monumental ‘Histoire de France’ (History of France), and the first historian to use and define the word ‘Renaissance’ as a period in Europe’s cultural history that represented a break from the Middle Ages, creating a modern understanding of humanity and its place in the world   Featured Artist: Thomas Couture (French history painter and educator, 1815-1879), Portrait of Jules Michelet, c. 1865   #peopleandculture #history #philosophy #julesmichelet #histoiredefrance #renaissance #humanprogress #freedom #humanity #artbasedlearning #historypainting #portraitpainting #thomascouture