The historian's privilege is to converse with the dead acros... - Lucien Febvre

"The historian's privilege is to converse with the dead across the gulf of time."

Lucien Febvre Art

Historian French 1878–1956

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"History is not the past. It is the present and the future too."

"To be a historian is to be a man committed to truth."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"Understanding the past requires imagination as much as scholarship."

"The stage is my true home."

"Art is the expression of the soul."

"Living well means living properly."

"Art and music are the treasures of civilization"