There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.
All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present. - Fernand Braudel
All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.
- Fernand Braudel
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. - Fernand Braudel
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
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… - Fernand Braudel
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…
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all. - Fernand Braudel
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
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 … - Fernand Braudel
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 …
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance. - Fernand Braudel
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
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… - Fernand Braudel
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…
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and cont… - Fernand Braudel
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and cont…
Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history. - Fernand Braudel
Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.
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