Fernand Braudel

There were two three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi stage rocket today the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.