Marc Bloch (1886-1944) was a historian of
medieval France in the period between the First and Second World Wars. Bloch founded with
Lucien Febvre[?] the important journal
Annales d'histoire économique et sociale (now called
Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations) whose name came to be attached to an historical approach called the
Annales School. Bloch's own most important work centered on the study of
feudalism.
Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the Occupation of France for his work in the resistance.