Barbara W. Tuchman Quote

Principle, formulated for the occasion, that a woman does not succeed to the throne of France. Thus was born the momentous Salic Law that was to create a permanent bar to the succession of women where none had existed before.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Principle, formulated for the occasion, that a woman does not succeed to the throne of France. Thus was born the momentous Salic Law that was to create a permanent bar to the succession of women where none had existed before.

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About Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
Tuchman focused on writing popular history.