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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French pioneer of ‘microhistory’ whose study of Montaillou was a bestseller...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 months agoProfessor Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, who has died aged 94, was director of the French Bibliothèque...
Rare ‘treasure box’ of French letters opened and read after 265 years
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Penance and plague: How the Black Death changed one of Christianity's most important rituals
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoConfession, circa 1460/1470. Artist unknown. Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty...
200 year-old French love letters opened for the first time
Euronews via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOnce forgotten in the British military archives, the 200-year-old love letters finally saw the light...
Steamy love letters sent to captured French sailors have been opened for the first time in 265 years
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMany of the letters contain intimate messages from the fiancées and wives of French sailors...
Love letters written to French sailors confiscated by British 265 years ago finally opened
The Independent via Yahoo News· 7 months agoLost letters written to French sailors in the 18th century have been opened for the first time, in a...
French letters confiscated by Britain’s Royal Navy are opened 265 years on
Press Association News via AOL· 7 months agoLetters confiscated by Britain’s Royal Navy before they reached French sailors during the Seven...