There is no true understanding without a certain range of c… - Marc Bloch

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There is no true understanding without a certain range of comparison.

Marc Bloch

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Marc Bloch (6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian, soldier and resistance fighter who, together with Lucien Febvre and Henri Hauser, was the co-founder of the enormously influential Annales School of historiography. The author of a variety of books, including his magnum opus The Historian's Craft, which he wrote as a political prisoner prior to his execution by the Gestapo for his work in the French Resistance, Bloch was instrumental to the foundation of the Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales journal, and its introduction of interdisciplinary history to twentieth century historiography.

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Pen Names: Marc Fougères • Narbonne

Alternative Names: Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch

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Successive technological revolutions have immeasurably widened the psychological gap between generations. With some reason, perhaps, the man of the age of electricity and of the airplane feels himself removed from his masters.

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavour toward better understanding.

There is no true understanding without a certain range of comparison. - Marc Bloch

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