Pierre Nora, Historian of "Places of Memory"

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Today's values. Pierre Nora was both historian and publisher. In what way did this double cap mark the moral requirement of his intellectual life?Michel Zink. Pierre Nora first of all... Read article Tribute to Pierre Nora: "All the great historians of his time are indebted to him", comments Michel Zink, of the French Academy appeared first on Current Values.

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One of the "immortals" is dead: Pierre Nora shaped French history over many decades. Now the historian died at the age of 93.

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Pierre Nora died on June 2. Historian, member of the Académie française, publisher at Gallimard and co-founder, with Marcel Gauchet of the magazine "Le Débat", he has been an important figure in the intellectual debate for five decades. Sociologist Nathalie Heinich, who wrote in "Le Débat" and was published several times by the historian, pays tribute to him.

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Historian Pierre Nora coined the term lieux de mémoire, places of memory. He was a central figure in the heated debate over the study of the French past.

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Those who study the role of memory for collective identities today can learn from him: To the death of one of France's most important humanities scholars.

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He helped thinkers like Michel Foucault and Jacques Le Goff to world fame, shaped the publishing house Gallimard like the Académie française. To the death of the French historian and publisher Pierre Nora.