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Place of Birth: Lonlay-l'Abbaye, Normandy, France
About Alain Corbin
- Alain Corbin (born January 12, 1936 in Lonlay-l'Abbaye) is a French historian.
- He is a specialist of the 19th century in France and in microhistory. 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 mentalités.
- 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.
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