Jacques Godechot

{{Short description|French historian (1907–1989)}}{{Infobox historian

| name = Jacques Godechot

| birth_date = 3 January 1907

| death_date = 24 August 1989

| discipline = Historian

| sub_discipline = Atlantic history, French Revolution

| nationality = French

| workplaces = University of Toulouse University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès

| birth_place = Lunéville

}}

Jacques Léon Godechot (3 January 1907 – 24 August 1989) was a French historian of the French Revolution and a pioneer of Atlantic history.Emmet Kennedy, 'Jacques Godechot', in Philip Daileader & Philip Whalen, eds., French Historians 1900-2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France, 306-316 He was the Dean of the Faculty of Letters and human sciences at the University of Toulouse from 1961 to 1971.{{Cite journal |last=Bonnassie |first=Pierre |last2=Estèbe |first2=Jean |last3=Fournier |first3=Georges |last4=Pech |first4=Rémy |last5=Taillefer |first5=Michel |date=1989 |title=Nécrologie. Jacques Godechot (1907-1989) |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/anami_0003-4398_1989_num_101_188_2262 |journal=Annales du Midi |volume=101 |issue=188 |pages=489–495}}

Godechot was born in 1907 in Lunéville. He was appointed to the Faculty of Letters of Toulouse in 1945 and taught there until 1980.

As a frequent and varied contributor to the Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, he acted as "a mediator, an intermediary between readers of the journal and Anglo-Saxon and Italian historiography of the Revolution".Bernard Gainot, [http://ahrf.revues.org/11106 La contribution de Jacques Godechot aux Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française], Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française 353 (July–September 2008), pp.113-128 His emphasis on the international dimension of the late-18th- and early-19th-century revolutions was crystallized in the concepts of Atlantic history and 'occidental revolution'. In 1955, Godechot collaborated with the Yale historian Robert Roswell Palmer to present a joint paper on 'the problem of Atlantic history' at the 10th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Rome.William O'Reilly, 'Genealogies of Atlantic History', Atlantic Studies 1:1 (2004), 66 — 84