Maxime Leroy


Maxime Leroy was a French jurist and social historian.

Career

Maxime Leroy studied law at the university of Nancy, where he obtained his doctorate in 1898. A friend of Victor Griffuelhes and Alphonse Merrheim, he devoted his first works to the development of trade unionism and its legal and social impact. In 1909 he founded the "Société des amis du lac" at Soorts-Hossegor, where writers such as J.-H. Rosny jeune, Paul Margueritte and Gaston Chérau had been meeting for some years. A member of the Human Rights League of France and a supporter of the League of Nations, he participated in numerous international meetings and had a correspondence with Sigmund Freud and H.G. Wells. From 1937, he was a professor at the École libre des sciences politiques. His most important work, Histoire des idées sociales en France, was published in three volumes between 1946 and 1954. For the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, he edited the Port-Royal by Sainte-Beuve, published in 1953. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1954.

Works