Jacques Godechot
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| Born | 3 January 1907 |
| Died | 24 August 1989 |
| Nationality | French |
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| Discipline | Historian |
| Sub-discipline | Atlantic history, French Revolution |
| Institutions | University of Toulouse University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès |
Jacques Léon Godechot (3 January 1907 – 24 August 1989) was a French historian of the French Revolution and a pioneer of Atlantic history.[1] He was the Dean of the Faculty of Letters and human sciences at the University of Toulouse from 1961 to 1971.[2]
Godechot was born in 1907 in Lunéville.[2] He was appointed to the Faculty of Letters of Toulouse in 1945 and taught there until 1980.[2]
As a frequent and varied contributor to the Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, he acted as "a mediator, an intermediary between readers of the journal and Anglo-Saxon and Italian historiography of the Revolution".[3] His emphasis on the international dimension of the late-18th- and early-19th-century revolutions was crystallized in the concepts of Atlantic history and 'occidental revolution'. In 1955, Godechot collaborated with the Yale historian Robert Roswell Palmer to present a joint paper on 'the problem of Atlantic history' at the 10th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Rome.[4]
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