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Born	c.965
Died After	1008
Subjects Of Study	Frank

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St. Gregory of Tours

Frankish scholar

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Einhard

Frankish historian

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Nithard

Frankish historian

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François Furet

French historian

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

French philosopher and historian

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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Fernand Braudel

French historian and educator

The elevation of Marc Bloch to the Pantheon

Marc Bloch

French historian

Adolphe Thiers

Adolphe Thiers

French statesman and historian

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Lucien Paul Victor Febvre

French historian

Jules Michelet, detail of an oil painting by Thomas Couture; in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris.

Jules Michelet

French historian

François Guizot

François Guizot

French politician and historian

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Henri Loyrette

French arts administrator and historian

Barnave, Antoine

Antoine Barnave

French politician

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Hilaire Belloc

British author

Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Edgar Quinet

French historian and poet

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Jacques-Auguste de Thou

French statesman and historian

Ollivier, photograph by P. Petit; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Émile Ollivier

French statesman

Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)

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