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Born	May 31, 1952 (age 74) • Neuilly-sur-Seine • France

Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889

Hippolyte Taine

French critic and historian

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Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon

French artist

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Philip Hendy

British art historian and curator

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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

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

French biologist

Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People

Eugène Delacroix

French artist

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

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