Biography

Born July 26 1935. Died February 19 2023.

Training and professional career

  • 1960-1962 : Teacher at Châlons-sur-Marne high school
  • 1962-1965 : Assistant at ENS Saint-Cloud
  • 1965-1969 : Senior assistant
  • 1962-1965 : CNRS research fellow
  • 1973-1974 : Lecturer at Université Paris-VII
  • 1974-1977 : Senior lecturer at the University of Paris-VII
  • 1978-1989 : Professor, University of Paris-I
  • 1985-1989 : Professor, European Institute, Florence
  • Since 1989 : Director of Studies, EHESS
  • Since 1990 : Director, Institut d'histoire moderne et contemporaine
  • Since 1998 : Professor at the Collège de France
  • Director of the journalHistoire moderne et contemporaine
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, École des Chartes
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the University of Paris-I

Awards and distinctions

  • 1989 : Member of Academia Europea
  • 1992 : Grand prix national d'Histoire
  • 1992 : Officier des Arts et Lettres
  • 1996 : Chevalier de l'ordre du Mérite
  • 2000 : Member of the American Academy
  • 2001 : Grand prix d'histoire de la Ville de Paris
  • 2001 : Prix Pégase
  • 2002 : Member of the British Academy
  • 2005 : Honorary doctorate from the University of Verona
  • 2008 : Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva
  • July 2011 : Elected Foreign Corresponding Academician of the Class of Moral Sciences, Section of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Moral Sciences of the Institute of Bologna
  • May 2013 : Laurain-Portemer Prize, Académie des sciences morales et politiques

Selected bibliography