Jean-Pierre Azéma
Jean-Pierre Azéma (born 1937) is a French historian.
Career[]
He is a member of the scientific counsel for the , an organisation founded by François Mitterrand with the goal of "contributing to the propagation of knowledge on the political and social history of modern France". He supported Ségolène Royal.[1]
Azéma is the author of several prominent historical works, making him somewhat an authority amongst France's historians.
A specialist of World War II, and more specifically of the Vichy Regime and the French Resistance, Jean-Pierre Azéma is a university lecturer and teaches history at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris.[2] He was also one of the historians called as witness for the trial of Maurice Papon, (alongside , Robert O. Paxton and ). He is also one of the authors of the film The Eye of Vichy (L’Œil de Vichy) by Claude Chabrol.[3] He attended the Conférence organiséd on the 60th anniversary of the death of Jean Moulin.[4]
He is the father of Vichy historian, Arianne Azéma.
Select works[]
- 6 juin 44, 2004 (with Robert O. Paxton, )
- Jean Moulin : le politique, le rebelle, le résistant, 2003
- Jean Cavaillès résistant ou La pensée en actes, 2002 (written under his direction)
- De Münich à la Libération: 1938–1944, Cambridge University Press, 1990, new edition., 2002
- Vichy : 1940–1944, 2000 (with Olivier Wieviorka) [5]
- 1938–1948 : les années de tourmente : de Munich à Prague : dictionnaire critique, 1995 (with )
- Histoire de l'extrême droite en France, 1994 (under the direction of Michel Winock) Seuil, ISBN 978-2-02-018896-8
- Jean Moulin et la Résistance en 1943, Jean-Pierre Azéma (ed), , 1994
- Les libérations de la France, 1993 (with Olivier Wieviorka)
- La France des années noires, 1993 (with )
- Le régime de Vichy et les Français, 1992 (with )
- La IIIe République : 1870–1940, (with Michel Winock) Calmann-Lévy, 1970, new edition, 1991
- 1940, l'année terrible, Seuil, 1990, ISBN 978-2-02-012131-6
- Paris under the occupation, Gilles Perrault, Jean-Pierre Azéma, Deutsch, 1989, ISBN 978-0-233-98511-4
- Les communistes français de Munich à Châteaubriant : 1938–1941, 1987 (with Antoine Prost and )
- Histoire générale politique et sociale : la France des années sombres, les années 40, 1987
- La collaboration : 1940–1944, 1975
- Les Communards, 1964 (with Michel Winock) Éditions du seuil, 1970
References[]
- ^ "Elections 2007".
- ^ Robert Paxton, « Une identité entre-atlantique » in Pourquoi la France, L. Downs et S. Gerson (dir.), Éditions du Seuil, 2007 (ISBN 9782020925617)
- ^ "Jean-Pierre Azéma".
- ^ "Jean-Pierre AZÉMA — La liberté de l'esprit". Lalibertedelesprit.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ^ Vichy, 1940–1944 / Jean-Pierre Azéma, Olivier Wieviorka. - SearchWorks (SULAIR). Searchworks.stanford.edu. 1997. ISBN 9782262011239. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
External links[]
- French historians
- Historians of Nazism
- Social historians
- Historians of Vichy France
- 1937 births
- Living people
- People of French descent from Réunion
- French male writers
- Historians of World War II
- Lycée Henri-IV teachers