Albert Bayet

1800s: Martineau · Tocqueville · Marx · Spencer · Le Bon · Ward · Pareto · Tönnies · Veblen · Simmel · Durkheim · Addams · Mead · Weber · Du Bois · Mannheim · Elias Albert Pierre Jules Joseph Bayet (1 February 1880, Lyon[1] – 26 June 1961, Paris) was a French sociologist, professor at both the Sorbonne and the École pratique des hautes études.

In 1923, he became directory of studies in the « Histoire des idées morales » [ethics] department of the École pratique des hautes études, later leading ethics courses at the Sorbonne.

[2] He was the president of the French National Press Federation (FNPF) from 25 August 1944 to his death in 1961.

After having been clandestine president in 1943 and 1944, participating with writer Victor Charbonnel in the journal L'Action.

He was also member of the French Human Rights League for many years, president of the Ligue de l'enseignement from 1949 to 1959, and general secretary of the Union rationaliste [fr].