Jules Michelet died February 9, 1874.
== Political life ==Uncompromisingly hostile as Michelet was to the empire, its downfall in 1870 in the midst of France's defeat by Prussia and the rise and fall of the Paris Commune during the following year, once more stimulated him to activity
Michelet's Origines du droit franais, cherches dans les symboles et les formules du droit universel was edited by mile Faguet in 1890 and went into a second edition in 1900

