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Born November 1, 1539 • Troyes • France
Died November 1, 1596 (aged 57) • France
Notable Works “Les Libertés de l’église gallicane”
Subjects Of Study Middle Ages • history of France
Marc Bloch
French historian
Ferdinand Lot
French historian
André Duchesne, detail from an engraving
André Duchesne
French historian
Arthur Giry
French historian
Henri Martin
French historian
Louis-Georges-Oudard-Feudrix de Bréquigny
French historian
Joan Wallach Scott
American historian
Pirenne, Henri
Henri Pirenne
Belgian historian
Flavio Biondo
Italian historian
J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi
Swiss economist
Charles Homer Haskins
American educator
Johan Huizinga
Dutch historian
Adam Of Bremen
German historian
Theodor von Sickel
Austrian historian
Joachim Lelewel
Joachim Lelewel
Polish historian
William Stubbs
British historian
Edmond Goncourt
French author
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian and political writer
Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889
Hippolyte Taine
French critic and historian
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman

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