Philippe Ariès was an important French medievalist and historian of the family and childhood, in the style of Georges Duby. Ariès has written many books on the common daily life. His most prominent works regarded the change in the western attitudes towards death. Ariès regarded himself as a right-wing anarchist. He was close to the monarchist "Action française", and wrote in "La Nation française" review. Wikipedia
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