What we forget is as important historically as what we remem... - Lucien Febvre

"What we forget is as important historically as what we remember."

Lucien Febvre

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."