by Pierre Chaunu · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221048986
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«Le grand déclassement: À propos d'une commémoration» is the historical essay by Pierre Chaunu, published in 1989 in paperback, in French.
Pierre Chaunu questions the commemoration of the French Revolution: he argues that it interrupted a favorable economic and social evolution and left demographic decline, religious persecution and intolerance. Against the heroic reading, he presents the Revolution as a great historical brake and an enormous human cost.
For those interested in the history of France and in the historiographical debate on the French Revolution.
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Pierre Chaunu was a French historian. His specialty was Latin American history; he also studied French social and religious history of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. A leading figure in French quantitative history as the founder of "serial history", he was professor emeritus at Paris IV-Sorbonne, a member of the Institut de France, and a commander of the Légion d'Honneur. A convert to Protestantism from Roman Catholicism, he defended his far-right views most notably in a longtime column in Le Figaro and on Radio Courtoisie.
