Quote of the day
It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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