Braudel
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But, what happens if we look at changes over a really long interval, one lasting centuries or even millennia, what the great historian Fernand Braudel called the longue durée?
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2021
As Ferdinand Braudel notes in The Structure of Everyday Life, around the beginning of the 18th century, Louis XIV forbade his children to eat with the forks that their tutor had encouraged them to use.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2012
France had 40 nationwide food calamities between 1500 and 1800, more than one every decade, according to the French historian Fernand Braudel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 5, 2011
Historical studies regularly top best-seller lists, and bygone French historians like Georges Duby and Fernand Braudel are not unfamiliar names in many households here.
From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2011
France and Spain were still more bloodthirsty than England, according to Braudel.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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