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Pierre Nora
AuthorBooks · Second hand1931-2025
Pierre Charles Nora was a French historian elected to the Académie Française on 7 June 2001. As editor at Éditions Gallimard, he established the Library of Social Sciences in 1966 and the Library of Histories in 1970. He was director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences from 1977 for four decades. Nora is known for having directed Les Lieux de Mémoire, four volumes focused on places and objects of remembrance which incarnate the national memory of the French, writing a new history.
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1931
Death
2025
Pierre Charles Nora was a French historian elected to the Académie Française on 7 June 2001. As editor at Éditions Gallimard, he established the Library of Social Sciences in 1966 and the Library of Histories in 1970. He was director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences from 1977 for four decades. Nora is known for having directed Les Lieux de Mémoire, four volumes focused on places and objects of remembrance which incarnate the national memory of the French, writing a new history.
Pierre Nora was a prominent French historian whose work focused deeply on memory and national identity.
He is world-renowned for his monumental editorial project Les lieux de mémoire.
In addition to his work as a historian, he had an influential career as an editor and university professor.
He was a distinguished member of the prestigious Académie Française.
Throughout his prolific career, he published a total of 28 works exploring the history and identity of France.
