French & British Academics

Giclee Print: Michel De Nostredame, Called Nostradamus (1503-156) by François Marius Granet : 12x9in
size: 12x9in Giclee Print: Michel De Nostredame, Called Nostradamus (1503-156) by François Marius Granet :
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340s-1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The...
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859) - Nous lui devons de savoir qui nous sommes
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859) - Théoricien de la démocratie - Herodote.net
J.R.R. Tolkien | Biography, Books, Movies, & Facts
J.R.R. Tolkien | Biography, Books, Movies, & Facts | Britannica
A. J. P. Taylor
A.J.P Taylor, Historian and broadcaster. Born Alan John Percivale Taylor in Birkdale, Lancashire. A lecturer in modern history at Manchester University and in international history at Oxford. His major works include 'The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848 - 1918' and 'The Origins of the Second World War'. Probably best known for his historical lectures on television. Died at a nursing home in Barnet.
This famous French economist has a counterintuitive idea for how Democrats can retake America
Would Bernie Sanders have won? French economist Thomas Piketty seems to think so. The author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, a New York Times best-seller and the most-bought book in the history of Harvard University Press, has published a paper that uses exit polling data to argue that embracing economic populism would power the left toward huge electoral wins. The paper is called “Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right: Rising Inequality & the Changing Structure …
René Descartes
René Descartes est un mathématicien, physicien et philosophe français, né le 31 mars 1596 à La Haye-en-Touraine, aujourd'hui Descartes, baptisé le 3 avril 1596 dans l'église Saint-Georges de Descartes, et mort le 11 février 1650 à Stockholm. Il est considéré comme l’un des fondateurs de la philosophie moderne.