A. J. P. Taylor, Referring to Napoleon III, in "Mistaken Lessons from the Past", The Listener (6 June 1963)
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Like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
— A. J. P. Taylor on Napoleon III
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About A. J. P. Taylor
Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.
About A. J. P. Taylor
Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.
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