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Marc Bloch (1886-1944) was one of the most important and innovative historians of the 20th century. As one of the founders of the Annales School, he revolutionized our understanding of what History was as a subject and, just as importantly, what it could be. His posthumously published book, Apologie pour l'histoire (known in English as The Historian's Craft), remains one of the best introductions to studying the subject at a serious academic level. Politically he was a natural conservative, but the intense levels of antisemitism on the political Right during the Third Republic meant that he voted for parties of the Left as a rule, though he always despised the PCF.
After the Fall of France, Bloch, a veteran of the First World War, became an important member of the French Resistance and was largely active around Lyon. He was arrested by the Gestapo on the 8th of March 1944 and was continually tortured but did not break. He was shot, along with twenty seven others, in a field near Saint-Didier-de-Formans on the 16th of June 1944.
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