Albert Malet (historian)

Albert Malet (3 May 1864, Clermont-Ferrand – 25 September 1915, Battle of Thélus, Pas de Calais) was a French historian and writer of scholarly textbooks, killed during the First World War.

[1] Malet failed the entrance exam at Saint-Cyr, However, in 1889 he passed the Aggregation of History and Geography[usurped].

[2] Malet began teaching in Paris as "professeur agrégé d'histoire" (Associate Professor of History) at the lycée Voltaire in 1897.

[3] Malet was one of the founding members and served as Secretary and on the Board of the Société d’Histoire de la Révolution in 1904.

Malet contributed to the Histoire Générale du I’VE siècle à nos jours (General History of the Fourth Century to the Present Day) in twelve volumes, edited by Ernest Lavisse and published from 1893 to 1904.