Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Marc Bloch
Born: July 6, 1886
Died: June 16, 1944 (aged 57)
Bio: Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history. Bloch was a quintessential modernist.
Known for:
- Strange Defeat
- The Historian's Craft
- Feudal society
- French Rural History
- The Royal Touch