Author: Charles Seignobos
Title: Histoire sincère de la nation française. Essai d’une histoire de l’évolution du peuple français. 7th edition in one volume,
Description: P.U.F. 1933, 520 pp, paperback, The adjective “sincere”, which in historiography should sound superfluous and even silly, became necessary against the backdrop of a contemporary history writing that was driven by ideology or idiosyncrasy. Seignobos however, as the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga kindly concluded, succeeded in this personal mission, thus proving himself a worthy representative of the people he had described as: “un peuple prudent, raisonnable et pacifique

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