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(Français) 2. De Didier à Masson

Charles Lenormant

 

Between history & politics

Alphonse de NEUVILLE. Cromwell à la bataille de Worcester. Gravure sur bois In L'histoire de France racontée à mes petits-enfants, tome 1 de François Guizot, Paris, Hachette, 1877.

The first half of the XIXth century was a particularly favourable era for the study of history. After the unprecedented events which, between 1789 and 1815, had radically changed France and Europe, it was the responsibility of the new generation to make sense of what had happened and to understand the world they were entering […]