Roche, Daniel
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Birthname | Daniel Robert Roche | ||||
born on | 26 July 1935 at 08:20 (= 08:20 AM ) | ||||
Place | Paris, France, 48n52, 2e20 | ||||
Timezone | GDT h1e (is daylight saving time) | ||||
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Biography
French social and cultural historian, widely recognized as one of the foremost experts of his generation on the cultural history of France during the later years of the Ancien Régime. Roche produced over two hundred publications covering a broad variety of subjects on this topic.
Among his notable works are Le Siècle des Lumières en Province: Académies et Académiciens Provinciaux, 1680–1789 (The Enlightenment in the Provinces: Provincial Academies and Academics, 1680–1789); Le Peuple de Paris. Essai sur la Culture Populaire au XVIIIe Siècle (The People of Paris. Essay on Popular Culture in the Eighteenth Century); La Culture des Apparences. Une Histoire du Vêtement, XVII-XVIIIe Siècle (The Culture of Clothing. Dress and Fashion in the Ancien Régime); and La France des Lumières (France in the Enlightenment).
Roche died on 19 February 2023 at the age of 87.
Events
Source Notes
Didier Geslain archive, 'R' pdf file, p. 92.
Categories
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 87)
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Historian (Social and cultural historian)
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction