Marc Bloch
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Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (6 July 1886 in Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

 – 16 June 1944 in Saint-Didier-de-Formans
Saint-Didier-de-Formans
Saint-Didier-de-Formans is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.-Population:-Personalities:The historian Marc Bloch was executed by the Gestapo here.-References:*...

) was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School
Annales School
The Annales School is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century. It is named after its scholarly journal Annales d'histoire économique et sociale, which remains the main source of scholarship, along with many books and...

 of French social history. Bloch was a quintessential modernist. An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family in Paris, he was deeply affected in his youth by the Dreyfus Affair
Dreyfus Affair
The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent...

. He studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure; in 1908-9 he studied at Berlin and Leipzig.
 
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