HANOTAUX, GABRIEL-ALBERT-AUGUSTE. — Politician and writer, born in Beaurevoir (Aisne) on 19 November 1853, died in Paris on 11 April 1944. He taught at the École pratique des Hautes Études; he was three times Minister of Foreign Affairs, then minister plenipotentiary and deputy; a member of the Académie française from 1898.
He wrote: Histoire du card. de Richelieu (1896 ff.), Tableau de la France en 1614 (1898), Histoire de la France contemporaine (1903–1908), Jeanne d’Arc (1911), Histoire de la nation française (1920–29), Mon temps (1933–44), etc.
BIBL.: P. Drouot, La Jeanne d’Arc de G. H., in Marches de l’Est, Paris 1913, pp. 234–330; F. L. de la Barre and others, La vie et l’oeuvre de G. H., Abbeville 1933. Costanza Pasquali