Daniel Halévy
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Daniel Halévy was a French
historian
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The son of Ludovic Halévy
, Daniel was born and died in Paris
. Social historians have acknowledged Halévy for his "Essai sur l'accélération de l'histoire" (Essay on the Acceleration of History), while he remains largely overlooked by literary scholarshttp://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-111X%28196704%2940%3A5%3C714%3ADHAHT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
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The son of Ludovic Halévy
Ludovic Halévy
Ludovic Halévy was a French author and playwright. He was half Jewish : his Jewish father had converted to Christianity prior to his birth, to marry his mother, née Alexandrine Lebas.-Biography:Ludovic Halévy was born in Paris...
, Daniel was born and died in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. Social historians have acknowledged Halévy for his "Essai sur l'accélération de l'histoire" (Essay on the Acceleration of History), while he remains largely overlooked by literary scholarshttp://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-111X%28196704%2940%3A5%3C714%3ADHAHT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage.
Works
- La vie de Frédéric Nietzsche (1909)
- The work about VaubanVaubanSébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban and later Marquis de Vauban , commonly referred to as Vauban, was a Marshal of France and the foremost military engineer of his age, famed for his skill in both designing fortifications and breaking through them...
(1923) - The work about Michelet (1928)
- Essai sur l'acceleration de l'histoire (1948)