US EditionEmmanuel Leroy Ladurie died: the historian of the 'Annales' studied the life of farmers
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A specialist in French countryside, particularly in the Middle Ages, it was his bestseller, translated into more than thirty languages, “Montaillou, an Occitan village from 1294 to 1324", that made him famous in 1975.
A communist when he was young, he had left the party after the invasion of Hungary. His research on the influence of climate on human events is also fundamental
The French author has published extensively on the rural world and the climate, which earned him the mockery of the time, in the years 1960-1970.
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie was 94 years old. The renowned historian, a professor at the Collège de France, died on Wednesday, his family announced on Thursday, confirming information from Le Figaro. He was one of the most translated French historians in Europe and the ET.
Professeur au Collège de France, administrateur général de la Bibliothèque nationale, historien de l’époque moderne et du climat, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie s’est éteint le 22 novembre à l’âge de 94 ans.
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