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Michelet - Softcover

Barthes

 
9780520078260: Michelet

Synopsis

Published in France in 1954, this book inspired a revival of interest in the great 19th-century French historian. Neither a biography, nor a critique, this book is the author's effort to give the reader a sense of the whole man.

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About the Author

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Rumania and Egypt, he joined the Centre de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the Collège de France until his death in 1980.

From the Inside Flap

"For students interested in historiography, Michelet is one of the earliest truly successful literary readings of an historical text. . . . For all of us who are interested in this field it is a classic."Lionel Gossman, author ofBetween History and Literature

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