Jean-Baptiste Tenaille de Vaulabelle was killed by the crowd while defending the queen Marie-Antoinette in Versailles.

[2] The eight volumes of his Histoire des deux Restaurations (1844-1874), covering the Bourbon restoration in France 1814-1830, met with immediate and permanent success.

His large history has been the most widely read study of the Restoration, and provided the facts used by most textbooks and popular accounts.

[3] After the February Revolution, Alphonse de Lamartine offered Vaulabelle the embassy in London, then that in Berlin, which he refused.

Vaulabelle reorganized the inspections service and gave more importance to the study of history and modern languages.