About Robert Mandrou
Lived 1921 – 1984 (aged 63). Robert Mandrou was a French historian and university teacher.
Robert Mandrou (; 31 January 1921 – 16 June 1984), was a French historian, one of the members of the Annales School and the secretary to its journal Annales d'Histoire Economique et Sociale ("Annals of economic and social history") . He was also, with Georges Duby one of the pioneers of what Annaliste historians in the 1970s and 80's came to call the "history of mentalities".
Selected works Histoire de la civilisation française (2 vol. with Georges Duby), Paris, Armand Colin, 1958. (published in English as A History of French Civilization, Random House, 1964)
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Who was Robert Mandrou?
French historian (1921-1984)
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Robert Mandrou was born on 31 January 1921 in 20th arrondissement of Paris.
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Robert Mandrou died on 25 March 1984 in 14th arrondissement of Paris.
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Robert Mandrou was a historian and university teacher.
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Robert Mandrou was French.
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