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Gregory is recognized as the "father of French history". [4] Richerus (fl. 10th century), monk and historian [1] Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150–1210), chronicler of the Fourth Crusade; his account of the Conquest of Constantinople is the oldest surviving historical writing in French. [5] Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 1400–1453), chronicler [1]
Francis Blomefield (1705–1752), historian of Norfolk, England; David Hume (1711–1776), History of England; Thomas Hutchinson (1711–1780), colonial Massachusetts; Francisco Jose Freire (1719–1773), Portuguese historian and philologist; William Robertson (1721–1793), Scottish historian; György Pray (1723–1801), Hungarian abbot and ...
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023) – history of the French peasantry; Michael Marrus (born 1941) – Vichy France; John M. Merriman (born 1946) - French Historian; Jules Michelet (1798–1874) – French historian; Roland Mousnier (1907–1993) – early modern France; Robert Roswell Palmer (1909–2002) – French revolution
Jules Michelet (French: [ʒyl miʃlɛ]; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) [3] was a French historian and writer.He is best known for his multivolume work, Histoire de France (History of France), [4] which is considered a foundational text in modern historiography.
Gildas, a fifth-century Romano-British monk, was the first major historian of Wales and England.His De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (in Latin, "On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain") records the downfall of the Britons at the hands of Saxon invaders, emphasizing God's anger and providential punishment of an entire nation, in an echo of Old Testament themes.
French and English were already the second languages of choice in Britain and France respectively. Eventually this developed into a political policy as the new united Germany was seen as a potential threat. Louis Blériot, for example, crossed the Channel in an aeroplane in 1909. Many saw this as symbolic of the connection between the two ...
The first major history was The Expansion of England (1883), by Sir John Seeley. [8] It was a bestseller for decades, and was widely admired by the imperialistic faction in British politics, and opposed by the anti-imperialists of the Liberal Party. The book points out how and why Britain gained the colonies, the character of the Empire, and ...
Anglo-French War (1294–1303) – known as the Gascon War in English and the Guyenne War in French; Anglo-French War (1324) – known as the War of Saint-Sardos; Anglo-French War (1337–1453) – the Hundred Years' War and its peripheral conflicts, often broken up into: Edwardian War (1337–1360) Caroline War (1369–1389) Lancastrian War ...