Write a short note on Marc Block
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MarcBloch
6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian. A founding member of the Annales School of French social history, he specialised in medieval history and published widely on Medieval France over the course of his career.
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Bloch, the son of a professor of ancient history, grandson of a school principal, and great-grandson of a combatant in the French Revolution, descended from a family of patriotic French Jews. Educated in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the École Normale Supérieure (1904–08), Bloch began his career in the highly contentious field of medieval history, which at that time was divided into nationalist and ideological camps. He acquired exceptional proficiency in languages, literature, and the social and natural sciences along with a zest for critical inquiry and demythologization. Deeply influenced by the production of forgeries and the manipulation of popular hysteria during the Dreyfus Affair (the controversy over the trial of French army captain Alfred Dreyfus for treason), Bloch developed a lifelong fascination with the political repercussions of mass delusions.