Paul Mantoux

Paul Mantoux (14 April 1877 – 14 December 1956) was a French historian. He wrote about the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. He was a Co-Founder of the Graduate Institute of International Studies (now IHEID) and interpreter for Georges Clemenceau at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Professor Paul Joseph Mantoux serving as an interpreter, 1918, by Herbert Arnould Olivier

One of his children was the economist Étienne Mantoux.

Works

• La Révolution industrielle au XVIIIe siècle. Essai sur les commencements de la grande industrie moderne en Angleterre. Paris: Société de librairie et d'édition, Pp. 544
  • English translation: The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England tr. Marjorie Vernon. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929, 539 pp.