Trained in the Annales School Corbins work has moved away from the large scale collective structures studied by Fernand Braudel towards a history of sensibilities which is closer to Lucien Febvres history of mentalit s His books have explored the histories of such subjects as male desire and prostitution sensory experience of smell and sound and the 1870 burning of a young nobleman in a Dordogne village Alain Corbin is a French historian specialist of the 19th century in France. Trained in the Annales School Corbin s work has moved away from the large scale collective structures studied by Fernand Braudel towards a history of sensibilities which is closer to Lucien Febvre s history of mentalit s His books have explored the histories of such subjects as male desire and prostitution sensory experience of smell and sound and the 1870 burning of a young nobleman in a Dordogne village site_link Histoire du repos

Histoire du repos By Alain Corbin

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Alain Corbin is a French historian specialist of the 19th century in France