French historian, born in Paris on the 15th of February 1821; became professor of history at Grenoble in 1845, next at the Collège Bourbon (afterwards called the Lycée Bonaparte), from 1845 to 1863, and in 1864 was appointed historiographer and librarian to the ministry of war. On December 30, 1871, he was elected a member of the French Academy. M. Rousset was the author of Précis d’Histoire de la Révolution Française (1849); Histoire de Louvois et de son Administration politique et militaire (4 vols., 1861–63), a work which in three consecutive years gained the first Gobert prize of the French Academy; Histoire de la Guerre de Crimée (1877); and other works. He died on the 20th of October 1892.
