Albert Bayet


Albert Pierre Jules Joseph Bayet was a French sociologist, professor at both the Sorbonne and the École pratique des hautes études.

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 » department of the École pratique des hautes études, later leading ethics courses at the Sorbonne.
He was the president of the French National Press Federation 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. He also took part in those which, shortly after the liberation, left the Radical party to join the Progressive Union, the 'kindred spirit' to the French Communist Party.
Bayet was a proponent of the Christ myth theory. With Paul-Louis Couchoud and Prosper Alfaric he authored Le Problème de Jésus et les Origines du Christianisme.

Works

Les Écrivains politiques du XVIIIe, extracts with an introduction and notes by Albert Bayet and François Albert, 1904
  • , 1907L'Idée de Bien, essai sur le principe de l'art moral rationnel, 1908
  • , 1908Le Mirage de la vertu, 1912La Casuistique chrétienne contemporaine, 1913
  • , 1922; 1975; 2007La Science des faites moraux, 1925Notre morale, 1926Les Morales de l'Évangile, 1927Le Livre de morale des écoles primaires. Cours moyen et supérieur, 1928Les Provinciales de Pascal, 1929Histoire de la morale en France, 2 vol., 1930–1931La Morale de la Science, 1931; 1947Le Problème de Jésus et les Origines du Christianisme, with et Paul-Louis Couchoud, 1932Le Radicalisme, 1932Pacifisme et Christianisme aux premiers siècles, 1934Attentats et terreur : instruments de conquête politique, Comité Franco-espagnol, brochure, 1937Histoire de France, 1938Qu'est-ce que le rationalisme ? 1939Histoire de la Déclaration des droits de l'homme : du 89 politique au 89 économique, 1939Pétain et la Cinquième Colonne, 1944 Les Pensées de Pascal, 1948Pour une réconciliation française. Laïcité XXe, 1958Histoire de la libre-pensée, 1959; « Que sais-je ? ? » 848, 1970