Albert Vandal
Albert Count Vandal (7 July 1853, Paris – 30 August 1910, Paris) was a French historian. He wrote:* ''En karriole à travers la Suède et la Norvège'' (1876) * ''Louis XV et Elizabeth de Russie'' (1882) * ''Ambassade française en Orient sous Louis XV'' (1887) * ''Napoléon et Alexandre Ier'' (three volumes, 1894-97), awarded the Vaubert prize * ''[https://archive.org/details/sc_0000495907_00000001125595 Les voyages du Marquis de Nointel]'' (1900) * ''L'avènement de Bonaparte'' (1902)
Vandal was elected to the Académie française in 1897, and he succeeded his teacher and friend, Albert Sorel as professor at the school of political science. Provided by Wikipedia