Question

Edmund Wilson’s To The Finland Station focuses mostly on works by this author, such as his analysis of the class system in The People in its first section. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of a History of France that popularized Joan of Arc and originated the term “Renaissance” for the period following the Middle Ages.
ANSWER: Jules Michelet (“mee-sheh-LAY”)
[10e] Michelet’s History of France goes up to this event that began in 1789. Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man defended this event against attacks leveled by Edmund Burke in his Reflections on it.
ANSWER: French Revolution [accept Reflections on the Revolution in France]
[10m] This French historian later declared Michelet the greatest historian of the 19th century in a 1950 lecture. This member of the Annales (“un-ALL-es”) School wrote Civilization and Capitalism and the unfinished Identity of France.
ANSWER: Fernand Braudel [or Fernand Paul Achille Braudel]
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