Editing Marc Bloch (section)

=== Family ===
Marc Bloch was born in Lyon on 6 July 1886,{{Sfn|Lyon|1985|p=183}} one of two children{{Sfn|Friedman|1996|p=7}} to [[Gustave Bloch|Gustave]]{{Refn|Gustave Bloch, author of ''[[La Gaule Romaine]]'', was a noted historian in his own right, and R. R. Davies suggests his son's "intellectual mentor; [it] was doubtless from him that Marc Bloch derived his interest in [[rural history]] and in the problem of the emergence of medieval society from the Roman world."{{sfn|Davies|1967|p=267}}|group=note}} and Sarah Bloch,{{Sfn|Friedman|1996|p=7}} née Ebstein.{{Sfn|Fink|1989|p=8}} Bloch's family were [[Alsatian Jew]]s: [[Secular humanism|secular]], liberal and loyal to the [[French Republic]].{{Sfn|Stirling|2007|p=527}} They "struck a balance", says the historian [[Carole Fink]], between both "fierce Jacobin patriotism and the antinationalism of the left".{{Sfn|Fink|1989|p=16}} His family had lived in Alsace for five generations under French rule. In 1871, France was forced to cede [[Alsace-Lorraine|the region]] to Germany following its defeat in the [[Franco-Prussian War]].{{Sfn|Epstein|1993|p=280}}{{Refn|Gustave Bloch personally took part in the [[Siege of Strasbourg|defence of Strasbourg]] in September 1870.{{sfn|Fink|1998|p=41}}|group=note}} The year after Bloch's birth, his father was appointed professor of [[Roman History]] at the Sorbonne, and the family moved to Paris{{Sfn|Lyon|1985|p=184}}—"the glittering capital of the Third Republic".{{Sfn|Fink|1995|p=205}} Marc had a brother, Louis Constant Alexandre,{{Sfn|Fink|1989|p=8}} seven years his senior. The two were close, although Bloch later described Louis as being occasionally somewhat intimidating.{{Sfn|Friedman|1996|p=7}} The Bloch family lived at 72, [[Rue d'Alésia]], in the [[14th arrondissement of Paris]]. Gustave began teaching Marc history while he was still a boy,{{Sfn|Friedman|1996|p=7}} with a secular, rather than [[Jewish education|Jewish, education]] intended to prepare him for a career in professional French society.{{Sfn|Fink|1989|p=17}} Bloch's later close collaborator, [[Lucien Febvre]], visited the Bloch family at home in 1902;{{Sfn|Friedman|1996|p=7}} although the reason for Febvre's visit is now unknown, he later wrote of Bloch that "from this fleeting meeting, I have kept the memory of a slender adolescent with eyes brilliant with intelligence and timid cheeks—a little lost then in the radiance of his older brother, future doctor of great prestige".{{sfn|Febvre|1947|p=172}}