The profession of historian seen by Georges Duby

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On the right, the historian Georges Duby, in the company of Claude Levi-Strauss, goes to a lunch of intellectuals at the Elysée, in Paris, in 1978. ALDO BENNATI / AFP

By: Pascal Paradou

Georges Duby (1919-1996) is a historian with world fame. Specialist of the period from the 10th to the 13th century in Western Europe, he changed the perception of the Middle Ages and renewed the methods of historical studies. He evokes here the profession of historian.

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But also  :

- An interview with François Hartog , historian. He prefaced the reissue of Georges Duby's book Sur les traces de nos peurs , published in bookstores this Wednesday, June 17, 2020, by Textuel editions. In this text, Georges Duby questions the differences and possible connections between the fears of the year 1000 and that of the end of the 20th century. François Hartog extends his thought with connections linked to the fear of the Covid-19 which leads us to lock ourselves up as was the case during the plague in the Middle Ages.
- The chronicle " La Puce ", by Lucie Bouteloupis made a canvas, on the onomatopoeias in the dialogues of cinema where we will inevitably cross the expressions of Louis De Funès .

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