Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

The French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie was born in 1929. He studied History at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and taught at various institutions, including the University of Montpellier, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, the Sorbonne, and the University of Paris VII. From 1973 to 1999, he held the position of Modern Cultural History at the Collège de France. He is considered one of the main representatives of the Annales historiographical movement and one of the most significant contemporary historians. His interests focused primarily on French political and rural history before the Revolution of 1789. He also engaged in historical demography and climate history. His most famous book, "Montaillou," has sold more than two million copies worldwide.