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Ouvrage de référence, écrit en 1926, maintes fois réédité, l'histoire des Croisades relate avec clarté et concision les neuf croisades qui jalonnèrent deux siècles extraordinaires dans l'histoire de Occident chrétien et de l'Islam. Ce deuxième volume raconte l'histoire du redressement musulman – scandé par la prise d'Edesse en 1145 et la victoire totale de Hattin en 1187 – et le long bras de fer qui oppose les deux camps lors des première et deuxième croisades. On y voit les rivalités déchirer les barons et les rois de France et d'Allemagne, les croisés et les établis, les prédicateurs et les missionnaires. Avec sa clarté d'expression légendaire, René Grousset décrit la remise en ordre politique et militaire menée par Nûr al-Dîn, puis Saladin. La présence occidentale, bien qu'affaiblie, survivra encore cent ans. Le chef-d'œuvre de René Grousset fait partie des classiques de l'Histoire au succès jamais démenti.

1013 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

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René Grousset

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René Grousset (September 5, 1885 – September 12, 1952) was a French historian specializing in Asiatic and Oriental history.
He was born in Aubais, Gard in 1885.

Having graduated from the University of Montpellier with a degree in history he began his distinguished career in the French Ministry of Fine Arts soon afterward. He served in the French army during World War I. In 1925 Grousset was appointed adjunct conservator of the Musee Guimet in Paris and secretary of the Journal asiatique. By 1930 he had published five major works on Asiatic and Oriental civilizations. In 1933 he was appointed director of the Cernuschi Museum in Paris and curator of its Asiatic art collections. He wrote a major work on the Chinese buddhist medieval pilgrim Huien Tsang, particularly emphasising the importance of his visit to the northern Indian buddhist university of Nalanda.

Before the outbreak of World War II, Grousset had published his two most important works, Histoire des Croisades (1934-1936) and L'Empire des Steppes (1939). Dismissed from his museum posts by the Vichy government, he continued his research privately and published three volumes on China and the Mongols during the war. Following the liberation of France, he resumed his curatorship of the Cernuschi Museum and in addition was appointed curator of the Musee Guimet. In 1946, Grousset was made a member of the French Academy. Between 1946 and 1949 he published four final works, concentrating on Asia Minor and the Near East.

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Tome 2 de l’immense livre de référence sur les Croisades. Au cœur de la grande histoire avec des héros, des salauds, des nuls et des voyous. La guerre quasiment sans discontinuer entre les Francs et les Musulmans menés à la fin du tome 2 par l’immense Saladin jusqu’à la chute de Jérusalem. Superbe.
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