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Ferdinand Victor Henri Lot ( Le Plessis Piquet, 20 September 1866 –

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, 20 July 1952Ferdinand Lot at Les Sociétés Savantes
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and

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. His masterpiece, '' The End of the Ancient World and the Beginnings of the Middle Ages'' (1927), presents an alternative account of the fall of the Roman Empire than does

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's ''

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' is a six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon. It traces Western civilization (as well as the Islamic and Mongolian conquests) from the height of the Roman Empire to th ...

'', which had set the tone for Enlightenment scholarship in blaming the fall of classical civilization on

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. Lot was a member of the

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions ( epig ...

, part of the

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, and an honorary professor at the

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The End of the Ancient World and the Beginning of the Middle Ages.'' London: Kegan Paul, 1931. (''La Fin du monde antique et le début du Moyen Age.'')
* ''La France, des origines à la guerre de cent ans.'' (Paris: Gallimard, 1941). * ''L'Art Militaire et les Armees au Moyen Age'' (Paris, 1946) * ''La Gaule, Les fondements ethniques, sociaux et politiques de la nation française.'' (Paris: Fayard, 1947).

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