The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a be….

There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propella….

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and cont….

The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds..

Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as ….

For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,' as ….

The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the ru….

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization..

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present..

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time..

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history..

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance..

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history..

For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to c….

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all..