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evidence: Jacques Leon Godechot -LRB- 3 January 1907 -- 24 August 1989 -RRB- was a French historian of the French revolution , and a pioneer of Atlantic history .. French revolution. French revolution. Atlantic history. Atlantic history. As a frequent and varied contributor to the Annales Historiques de la Revolution Francaise , he acted as `` a mediator , an intermediary between readers of the journal and Anglo-Saxon and Italian historiography of the Revolution '' .. His emphasis on the international dimension of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century revolutions was crystallized in the concepts of Atlantic history and ` occidental revolution ' .. Atlantic history. Atlantic history. In 1955 Godechot collaborated with the Yale historian Robert Roswell Palmer to present a joint paper on ` the problem of Atlantic history ' at the 10th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Rome .. Atlantic history. Atlantic history. Robert Roswell Palmer. Robert Roswell Palmer