Robert Mandrou
French historian
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| Intro | French historian | |
| Places | France | |
| was | Historian Educator | |
| Work field | Academia Social science | |
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| Birth | 31 January 1921, Paris, Île-de-France, France | |
| Death | 25 March 1984 (aged 63 years) | |
| Star sign | Aquarius |
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Biography
Robert Mandrou (31 January 1921 – 16 June 1984), was a French historian, one of the members of the Annales School and the secretary to its journal Annales d'Histoire Economique et Sociale ("Annals of economic and social history") . He was also, with Georges Duby one of the pioneers of what Annaliste historians in the 1970s and 80's came to call the "history of mentalities".
Selected works
- Histoire de la civilisation française (2 vol. with Georges Duby), Paris, Armand Colin, 1958. (published in English as A History of French Civilization, Random House, 1964)