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It does not happen very often that scholars write their autobiographies. French historian Daniel Beauvois, however, was approached by the international review of the Polish Academy of Sciences Organon and the review Nauka Polska to write down his memoirs. According to Leszek Zasztowt, who wrote the preface to the book, Beauvois continued in the legacy of the famous Annales school. His research on Ukraine, Poland, Russia and Lithuania, especially on the relationship between gentry and peasantry, problems of education, as well as difficult and grievous questions of ethnicity, was met in Poland with sympathy, but also with criticism. In this regard, his autobiography appears, at least partially, as an attempt to explain how a Frenchman from Nord-Pas-de-Calais began to study the Polish borderlands (Kresy), their long-lasting myth, and why he described them in the manner that he did.