“Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion.”

About Fernand Braudel

Historian • French

Fernand Braudel was a preeminent French historian and a leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on large-scale socioeconomic history and the concept of the longue durée, which emphasizes long-term...