Anyone who has tried to navigate an archive or convey to others the excitement of discovery or of a way of reading texts will surely enjoy these books. Both books are compelling and could introduce history majors or graduate students to the delights and challenges of research. Both books make vivid for scholars, students, and general readers how these two prominent historians of early modern France found their subjects and questions and pursued their research. English translations of these books, published earlier in France, are most welcome. A Passion for History is a series of conversations between Natalie Zemon Davis and fellow historian of sixteenth-century France, Denis Crouzet, about her work and her life. In The Allure of the Archives, Arlette Farge describes her work in the judicial and police archives of Paris.
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