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Gibbon's Decline and Fall

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A reappraisal by Michael Grant , writer and historian.
The first volume of Decline and Fall was finished in the summer of 1775. Before Gibbon's day there had been antiquarian historians, ' les erudits.' and historians who went in for general ideas, ' les philosophes.' Gibbon, says MICHAEL GRANT , performed the extraordinary feat of, being both. followed by an interlude

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