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Georges Lefebvre

1874 - 1959

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Georges Lefebvre (French: [ʒɔʁʒ ləfɛvʁ]; 6 August 1874 – 28 August 1959) was a French historian, best known for his work on the French Revolution and peasant life. He is considered one of the pioneers of "history from below". He coined the phrase the "death certificate of the old order" to describe the Great Fear of 1789. Among his most significant works was the 1924 book Les Paysans du Nord pendant la Révolution française ("The Peasants of the North During the French Revolution"), which was the result of 20 years of research into the role of the peasantry during the revolutionary period. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Lefebvre is the 284th most popular historian (down from 228th in 2019), the 3,435th most popular biography from France (down from 3,120th in 2019) and the 37th most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Georges Lefebvre ranks 284 out of 561. Before him are Bernard Berenson, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Halil İnalcık, Claude Cahen, Zuo Qiuming, and Timothy Garton Ash. After him are George Buchanan, Gustave Schlumberger, Abraham Geiger, Marino Sanuto the Younger, Stéphane Courtois, and Wilhelm von Bode.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Georges Lefebvre ranks 128. Before him are Ioannis Mitropoulos, Eugen Fischer, Amy Lowell, Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar, Leopoldo Lugones, and Vagn Walfrid Ekman. After him are Ludwig Diels, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Edward Marsh, Mikhail Diterikhs, and Dmitry Gulia. Among people deceased in 1959, Georges Lefebvre ranks 105. Before him are Galaktion Tabidze, The Big Bopper, Bernard Berenson, Henri Vidal, Franz Blücher, and Ramón Fonst. After him are Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, Kafū Nagai, Irving Cummings, Eero Lehtonen, Ki Hajar Dewantara, and Edmund Gwenn.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Lefebvre ranks 3,435 out of 6,770. Before him are Chiara Mastroianni (1972), René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou (1714), Maurice Tourneur (1876), Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783), Julie Manet (1878), and François Séverin Marceau (1769). After him are Orlan (1947), Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1877), François de La Rocque (1885), Philippe LeBon (1767), Paul Grimault (1905), and Gustave Schlumberger (1844).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Georges Lefebvre ranks 37. Before him are Bernard Desclot (1201), Charles Rollin (1661), Régine Pernoud (1909), André Clot (1909), Maxime Rodinson (1915), and Claude Cahen (1909). After him are Gustave Schlumberger (1844), Stéphane Courtois (1947), Marc Ferro (1924), Gustave Lanson (1857), Émile Mâle (1862), and Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674).

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