text: Other older historians who challenged such justifications for the Partitions included French historian Jules Michelet , British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay , 1st Baron Macaulay , and Edmund Burke .
simplified: Other old historians who challenged such justifications for the Partitions included French historian Jules Michelet , British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay , 1st Baron Macaulay , and Edmund Burke .