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Rolande Trempé
Rolande Trempé (31 May 1916 - 12 April 2016) was a French Resistance fighter and historian who completed the first thesis in labour history on the miners of Carmaux. She taught throughout her life and specialised in labour history, her research interests included Jean Jaurès and the miners of Carmaux. Trempé was also a liaison officer for the French resistance and a member of the Federal Bureau of the French Communist Party. Early life Rolande Renée Lucie Trempé was born on the 31st of May 1916 in Fontenailles. Her mother was an ironer and her father a baker and sergeant in the French army. In 1917, during the Second Battle of Verdun, her father disappeared and was never seen again. Trempé was raised separate from her older brother by her maternal grandparents, who worked as agricultural workers, in Brie. She was recognised as a 'ward of the nation' due to the death of her father and so received a number of scholarships. Role in the French Communist Party In 1942, in C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Godechot
Jacques Léon Godechot (3 January 1907 – 24 August 1989) was a French historian of the French revolution, and a pioneer of Atlantic history. As a frequent and varied contributor to the ''Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française'', he acted as "a mediator, an intermediary between readers of the journal and Anglo-Saxon and Italian historiography of the Revolution". His emphasis on the international dimension of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century revolutions was crystallized in the concepts of Atlantic history and 'occidental revolution'. In 1955 Godechot collaborated with the Yale historian Robert Roswell Palmer to present a joint paper on 'the problem of Atlantic history' at the 10th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Rome.William O'Reilly, 'Genealogies of Atlantic History', ''Atlantic Studies'' 1:1 (2004), 66 — 84 Works * ''Histoire de l'Atlantique'', Paris: Bordas, 1947 * ''Les institutions de la France sous la Révolution et l'émpire'', Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille and Lyon, with 493,465 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries (2019 census); its metropolitan area has a population of 1,454,158 inhabitants (2019 census). Toulouse is the central city of one of the 20 French Métropoles, with one of the three strongest demographic growth (2013-2019). Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus, the SPOT satellite system, ATR and the Aerospace Valley. It hosts the CNES's Toulouse Space Centre (CST) which is the largest national space centre in Europe, but also, on the military side, the newly created NATO space centre of excellence and the French Space Command and Space Academy. Thales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
