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English historian and politician (1737–1794)
Also known as: Эдуард Гиббон, إدوارد جيبون, 에드워드 기번, エドワード・ギボン, 爱德华·吉本, Гиббон Эдуард
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- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged (1776)
- Memoire justificatif pour servir de réponse à l'Exposé, &c. de la cour de France (1779)
- The miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, esq (1814)
- The Christians and the fall of Rome (2005)
- Gibbon's autobiography