Listening to the Dead With Our Eyes: François Olivier-Martin's Library, a Mirror Image of a Legal Historian
Svetlana Kochkina
This article reports the results of a study private working library an important French legal historian, François Olivier-Martin (1879–1952). It is demonstrated that personal research library, being reflection scholarly life, beliefs, and personality its former owner, can be used as source information for historians biographers. The describes process intellectual reconstruction to original state fills existing gaps in biographical about Olivier-Martin, especially regarding his life work during Vichy period.
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