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Albert Bayet
Albert Pierre Jules Joseph Bayet, born in Lyon on 1 February 1880,[1] and died in the 7th arrondissement of Paris
on 26 June 1961, was a French sociologist, professor at both the Sorbonne and the École pratique des hautes études.

Contents
Biography
Works
References
Further reading

Biography
He was the son of Charles Bayet, Byzantine art historian, director of higher education, and the son-in-law of the
historian Alphonse Aulard. He graduated in 1901, becoming a professor at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in 1922. In 1923,
he became directory of studies in the « Histoire des idées morales » [ethics] department of the École pratique des
hautes études, later leading ethics courses at the Sorbonne.[2]

He was the president of the French National Press Federation (FNPF) from
25 August 1944 to his death in 1961. After having been clandestine
president in 1943 and 1944, participating with writer Victor Charbonnel in
the journal L'Action. He was also member of the French Human Rights
League for many years, president of the Ligue de l'enseignement from 1949
to 1959, and general secretary of the Union rationaliste. He also took part
in those which, shortly after the liberation, left the Radical party to join the
Union progressiste, the 'kindred spirit' to the French Communist Party.

Bayet was a proponent of the Christ myth theory. With Paul-Louis Commemorative plaque on the
Couchoud and Prosper Alfaric he authored Le Problème de Jésus et les Parisian home of Albert Bayet, 2
Origines du Christianisme (The Problem of Jesus and Christian Origins, Rue Monsieur-le-Prince
1932).

Works
Les Écrivains politiques du XVIIIe, extracts with an introduction and notes by Albert Bayet and François Albert,
1904
La Morale scientifique, essai sur les applications morales des sciences sociologiques (https://archive.org/details/l
amoralescienti01bayegoog), 1907
L'Idée de Bien, essai sur le principe de l'art moral rationnel, 1908
Les Idées mortes (https://archive.org/details/lesidesmortes00baye), 1908
Le Mirage de la vertu, 1912
La Casuistique chrétienne contemporaine, 1913
Le Suicide et la Morale (https://archive.org/details/lesuicideetlamor00bayeuoft), 1922 ; 1975 ; 2007
La Science des faites moraux, 1925

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Notre morale, 1926

Les Morales de l'Évangile, 1927
Le Livre de morale des écoles primaires. Cours moyen et supérieur, 1928
Les Provinciales de Pascal, 1929
Histoire de la morale en France, 2 vol., 1930-1931
La Morale de la Science, 1931 ; 1947
Le Problème de Jésus et les Origines du Christianisme, with Prosper Alfaric et Paul-Louis Couchoud, 1932
Le Radicalisme, 1932
Pacifisme et Christianisme aux premiers siècles, 1934
Attentats et terreur : instruments de conquête politique, Comité franco-espagnol, brochure, 1937
Histoire de France, 1938
Qu'est-ce que le rationalisme ? 1939
Histoire de la Déclaration des droits de l'homme : du 89 politique au 89 économique, 1939
Pétain et la Cinquième Colonne, 1944 (publié clandestinement durant l'Occupation)
Les Pensées de Pascal, 1948
Pour une réconciliation française. Laïcité XXe, 1958
Histoire de la libre-pensée, 1959 ; « Que sais-je ? » 848, 1970

References
1. Archives municipales numérisées de l'état civil de Lyon, birth certificate 2/1880/268, date and place of death
mentioned in the certificate margin (accessed 25 January 2013)
2. http://www.cairn.info/revue-actes-de-la-recherche-en-sciences-sociales-2004-3-page-41.htm

Further reading
Francis-Vincent Féraud, Christiane et Monique Bayet, La Vraie Légende d'Albert Bayet, Nouvelles Éditions
latines, 1965.

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