A documentary on Jules Michelet, the famous French historian of the nineteenth century, liberal-minded and anticlerical, who was instrumental in the evolution of historical research. His life, from his birth to his nomination to the post of supervisor of the historical department of the National Archive and to the chair of professor at the Collège de France, to the publication of his major works 'Hitoire de France" and "Histoire de la Révolution française", to his death through engravings a a few live views.