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| | Georges Duby, historian and aesthete of the Middle Ages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12) |
 | | hen Georges Duby died on December 3, 1996, aged 77, at his house in Provence (southern France), at the foot of the Montagne Sainte-Victoire so dear to Cézanne, it was a little as if the Middle Ages themselves were in mourning. |
 | | Not that he had not written any works dating back to the Carolingians (kings of France between 751 and 987) or extending to the Valois (who reigned from 1328 to 1589); it is just that the first three centuries of France under the Capetians were truly his. |
 | | Georges Duby was also editor in chief for Histoire de la France urbaine (Seuil, 1985), joint editor with Michel Laclotte on Histoire artistique de l'Europe (Seuil, 1995), with Michelle Perrot on Histoire des femmes en Occident (5 volumes, Plon, 1990) and with Philippe Ariès on Histoire de la vie privée (5 volumes, Seuil, 1985). |
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