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Fernand Braudel

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Also known as Fernand Paul Achille Braudel

French historian and leader of the Annales School

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Fernand Braudel (1902–1985) was a French historian and university teacher. Born in Luméville-en-Ornois and buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, he worked in Paris, Algiers, and São Paulo. He held full professorships at the University of São Paulo, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, the Collège de France, and Sciences Po. His students included Henri Hauser and François Victor Alphonse Aulard.

Braudel was a member of the Académie Française, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He received the award of Commander of the Legion of Honour. His notable works include *Capitalism & Material Life, 1400-1800*, *Histoire économique du monde méditerranéen, 1450-1650*, and *La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II*.

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Person · Open Library

Born
24 August 1902
Died
27 November 1985
Works
170

Top works

  • Capitalism & Material Life, 1400-1800
  • Histoire économique du monde méditerranéen, 1450-1650
  • la méditéranée et le monde méditéranéen à l'époque de Philippe 2
  • El Mediterráneo
  • La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II

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Total plays
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Quotes

  • [T]he entire course of French history since then has been influenced by something that happened in the eighteenth century” and asks “did France cease to be a great power not, as is usually thought, on 15 June 1815 on the field of Waterloo, but well before that, during the reign of Louis XV when the natural birth-rate was interrupted?
  • Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history.

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Encyclopedic overview

Fernand Paul Achille Braudel ( French: [fɛʁnɑ̃ bʁodɛl]; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian. His scholarship focused on three main projects: The Mediterranean (1923–49, then 1949–66), Civilization and Capitalism (1955–79), and the unfinished Identity of France (1970–85). He was a member of the Annales School of French historiography and social history in the 1950s and 1960s.

Plaque Fernand Braudel, 59 rue Brillat-Savarin, Paris 13 Braudel emphasized the role of large-scale socioeconomic factors in the making and writing of history. In a 2011 poll by History Today magazine, he was named the most important historian of the previous 60 years.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fernand Braudel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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