To be sure, these three disillusionments were not felt equally across international borders. Professional disillusionment was felt far more strongly in Britain and America than in France, where leaders of the profession like Braudel and Le Roy Ladurie maintained significant public visibility. In Italy, the commitment to a “scientific” history remained strong, while concern for readability and engaging with the general public had relatively little importance. Political disillusionment played out differently in Italy, where left-wing militancy had been widespread among dynamic younger historians, than in France, where many Annalistes had remained aloof from it (or, as in Le Roy Ladurie's case, had left activism behind after brief, youthful flings with the Communist Party). Nonetheless, the three disillusionments created an overall framework in which microhistory could emerge and flourish.