The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie with Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)

416 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction biography history reflective medium-paced
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From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie deepens and expands the historical contexts of thes...

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