The I of History: Self-Fashioning and National Consciousness in Jules MicheletThe I of History: Self Fashioning and National Consciousness in Jules Michelet examines the poetics of the historian's self portraiture as it intersects with the nation and history. History exists because someone tells the story. In Michelet's unique staging and performance of the past, the way the story is told is the story. Long before Charles de Gaulle, Michelet asserted that he was France. His self representation as the I of the nation and the