Charles Monnard

Charles Monnard (1790–1865) was a Swiss historian. He was from Lausanne, and expanded to Romandy the national-historical movement in Swiss history that had been promoted by German-speaking Swiss historians such as Johannes von Müller and Heinrich Zschokke. He translated both men's works into French, and was one of several historians to work on a continuation of von Müller's Geschichten Schweizerischer Eidgenossenschaft. This work fit into the context of Monnard's liberal politics in the controversies of the time, opposing the attempts of the old elites to reestablish themselves.

Monnard was also a founding member of the Société d'histoire de la Suisse romande, and a member of the Helvetic Society after it was revived in 1819.

References

• Clarissa Campbell Orr (1988). "Romanticism in Switzerland". In Roy Porter & Mikuláš Teich. Romanticism in National Context. Cambridge University Press. pp. 158–159. ISBN 0-521-33913-8.