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The Annales historians did not try to replicate Braudel's vast geographical scope in La Méditerranée.

Instead they focused on regions in France over long stretches of time.

The most important was the study of the Peasants of Languedoc by Braudel's star pupil and successor Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.

The regionalist tradition flourished especially in the 1960s and 1970s in the work of Pierre Goubert in 1960 on Beauvais and René Baehrel on Basse-Provence.

Annales historians in the 1970s and 1980s turned to urban regions, including Pierre Deyon ( Amiens ), Maurice Garden ( Lyon ), Jean-Pierre Bardet ( Rouen ), Georges Freche ( Toulouse ), and Jean-Claude Perrot ( Caen ).

By the 1970s the shift was underway from the earlier economic history to cultural history and the history of mentalities.