![]() During the war years, he taught briefly at a Vichy-sponsored training college, then accepted a post as director of a documentation center for international commerce in tropical fruit, where he worked for most of his adult life. During the late 1930s, he was also a journalist for the student newspaper of the royalist Action fran çaise and was active in allied right-wing intellectual circles, notably the Cercle Fustel de Coulanges, through which he became acquainted with Daniel Hal évy and other old-fashioned men of letters. Born into a middle-class professional family with Catholic religious convictions and sentimental attachments to the traditions of old France, Ari ès earned his licence in history and geography at the University of Grenoble and his dipl ôme d' études sup érieures at the University of Paris ( Sorbonne) in 1936 with a thesis on the judicial nobility of Paris in the sixteenth century. ![]() The French historical demographer and pioneering historian of collective mentalities Philippe Ari ès is best known for his L'Enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien R égime (1960, published in English in 1962 as Centuries of Childhood ), the seminal study that launched historical scholarship on childhood and family life in the Western world. ![]()
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